| Hydrophiloidea Temporal range:
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| Various Central European Hydrophiloidea, their larvae, and anatomical details | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Staphyliniformia |
| Superfamily: | Hydrophiloidea Latreille, 1802 |
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Several, see text | |
Hydrophiloidea, known as water scavenger beetles, is a superfamily of beetles. Until recently it included only a single family, the Hydrophilidae (water scavenger beetles), but several of the subfamilies have been removed and raised to family rank.[1] Hydrophiliidae remains by far the largest member of the group, with nearly 3,000 described species. The other families have no more than 400 species.[2] The Histeroidea are closely related and sometimes considered part of a sensu lato Hydrophiloidea.[1] The majority of the clade is aquatic, which is thought to be the ancestral ecology of the group, with some lineages like Sphaeridiinae becoming secondarily terrestrial. Modern representatives of the group first appeared during the Late Jurassic.[3]
Families include:[1]
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
tolwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Fikáček, Martin; Prokin, Alexander; Yan, Evgeny; Yue, Yanli; Wang, Bo; Ren, Dong; Beattie, Robert (April 2014). "Modern hydrophilid clades present and widespread in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea: Hydrophilidae): Modern hydrophilid clades in the Mesozoic". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 170 (4): 710–734. doi:10.1111/zoj.12114. S2CID 82580893.
- ^ Fikáček, Martin; Prokin, Alexander; Angus, Robert B.; Ponomarenko, Alexander; Yue, Yanli; Ren, Dong; Prokop, Jakub (July 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. S2CID 86311781.