Among the hundreds of thousands of species of beetles, there is one family, containing some 4,300 species, that stands out as one of the most diverse and important groups of aquatic predatory insects. This is the Dytiscidae, whose species are commonly known as diving beetles. No comprehensive treatment of this group has been compiled in over 130 years, a period during which a great many changes in classification and a near quadrupling of known species has occurred.
In Diving Beetles of the World, Kelly B. Miller and Johannes Bergsten provide the only full treatments of all 188...
Among the hundreds of thousands of species of beetles, there is one family, containing some 4,300 species, that stands out as one of the most diver...
