| Crawling water beetles | |
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| Haliplus fluviatilis | |
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| Peltodytes dispersus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Superfamily: | Haliploidea Aubé, 1836 |
| Family: | Haliplidae Aubé, 1836 |
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The Haliplidae are a family of water beetles that swim using an alternating motion of the legs. They are therefore clumsy in water (compared e.g. with the Dytiscidae or Hydrophilidae), and prefer to get around by crawling. The family consists of about 200 species in 5 genera, distributed wherever there is freshwater habitat; it is the only extant member of superfamily Haliploidea. They are also known as crawling water beetles or haliplids.[1]
- ^ R. E. Roughley (2001). "Haliplidae". In Ross H. Arnett Jr. & Michael C. Thomas (ed.). American Beetles, Volume 1. CRC Press.