Definition of Family Dytiscidae

1. Noun. Water beetles.

Exact synonyms: Dytiscidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Coleoptera, Order Coleoptera
Member holonyms: Water Beetle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Dytiscidae

family Diodontidae
family Diomedeidae
family Dioscoreaceae
family Dipodidae
family Dipsacaceae
family Dipterocarpaceae
family Discoglossidae
family Doliolidae
family Dracunculidae
family Drepanididae
family Dromaeosauridae
family Droseraceae
family Drosophilidae
family Dryopteridaceae
family Dugongidae
family Dytiscidae (current term)
family Ebenaceae
family Echeneidae
family Echeneididae
family Edaphosauridae
family Eimeriidae
family Elaeagnaceae
family Elaeocarpaceae
family Elapidae
family Elateridae
family Electrophoridae
family Eleotridae
family Elephantidae
family Elopidae
family Embiotocidae

Literary usage of Family Dytiscidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"family Dytiscidae (Carnivorous diving-beetles).—Members of this family are present in almost every quiet stream and pond. They are oval,,rather flat beetles ..."

2. Injurious and Useful Insects: An Introduction to the Study of Economic by Louis Compton Miall (1902)
"The tarsi are always five-jointed, and the jaws are adapted to piercing. Some of them eject an acrid liquid when handled. family Dytiscidae (diving-beetles) ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"488 OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DIVING BEETLES JAMES G. NEEDHAM AND HELEN V. WILLIAMSON OUR predacious diving beetles of the family Dytiscidae ..."

4. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"... not thus divided Family DYTISCIDAE . . 52 52 (61) Scutellum invisible 53 53 (54) Third and fourth segments of the fore and middle tarsi not greatly ..."

5. Zoology of the Invertebrata: A Text-book for Students. by Arthur Everett Shipley (1893)
"Family DYTISCIDAE.—Water-beetles, sometimes known as " water-tigers." Some are large oval beetles, others are quite minute ..."

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