Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Full reference: A. E. Z. Short and M. Fikáček. 2013. Molecular phylogeny, evolution and classification of the Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera). Systematic Entomology 38:723-752
Parent taxon: Hydrophilidae according to M. Fikáček et al. 2023
See also Cai et al. 2022, Short and Fikáček 2013 and Webster 2016
Sister taxa: Acidocerinae, Alegorius, Aposphinctus, Chaetarthriinae, Creniphilites, Cretosperchus, Escheria, Escheria bella, Escheria ovalis, Georissinae, Hydrocharis, Hydrochinae, Hydrophilinae, Mesosperchus schultzi, Orphnospercheus, Paraspercheus, Penitus, Philhydrus, Prospercheus, Protochares, Regimbartia, Rygmodinae, Spercheinae, Sphaeridiinae, Sphaeridium melanarium, Sternolophus
Subtaxa: Cymbiodyta Enochrus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Ontario collection), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (6: Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington)
• Miocene of China (1)
• Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of France (1), Lithuania (1), United States (2: Colorado, Wyoming)
Total: 21 collections including 22 occurrences