Helophoridae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Hydrophiloidea

Familia: Helophoridae
Genera (5): Helophorus – †Cretotaenia – †Hydrophilopsia – †Laetopsia – †Zetemenos
Name

Helophoridae Leach, 1815

References

Fikáček, M. et al. 2012: Revision of Mesozoic fossils of the helophorid lineage of the superfamily Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52(1): 89–127. PDF Reference page.
Fikáček, M., Prokin, A., Angus, R.B., Ponomarenko, A., Yue, Y., Ren, D. & Prokop, J. 2012: Phylogeny and the fossil record of the Helophoridae reveal Jurassic origin of extant hydrophiloid lineages (Coleoptera: Polyphaga). Systematic entomology, 37(3): 420–447. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00630.x Paywall. Reference page.
Webster, R.P. & Sweeney, J.D. 2016. New records of Helophoridae, Hydrochidae, and Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera) from New Brunswick, Canada. In: Webster, R.P., Bouchard, P. & Klimaszewski, J. (Eds) The Coleoptera of New Brunswick and Canada: providing baseline biodiversity and natural history data. ZooKeys 573: 19–30. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.573.7020.Reference page.

Links

Hydrophilidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD

Vernacular names
norsk: Furevannkjær
русский: Морщинники