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Spercheidae

Spercheus

Andrew Short
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Containing group: Hydrophiloidea

Introduction

The smallest of the Hydrophiloid families with less than twenty species in a single genus, Spercheidae is notable for being perhaps the only filter-feeders among the Coleoptera. Spercheids are primarily found in the Old World, although at least two species are known from South America.

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Scientific Name Spercheus emarginatus
Reference Reitter, Edmund. 1908. Die K?fer des Deutschen Reiches. Band 2. Fauna Germanica. K. G. Lutz Verlag, Stuttgart.
Source Collection BioLib Online Library of Biological Books
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University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA

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Short, Andrew. 2007. Spercheidae. Spercheus. Version 29 June 2007 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Spercheus/9214/2007.06.29 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

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