whirligig beetles
gyrinidae latin

Pond skaters and whirligig beetles use surface tension in different ways.

Whirligig beetles and dragonflies traced zigzags across the water's surface.

Whirligig beetles skated between lily pads, and white admiral butterflies flitted around us.

Dineutus is a genus of beetle within the family of whirligig beetles, or Gyrinidae.

Members include ground beetles, tiger beetles, predacious diving beetles, and whirligig beetles.

These aptly named whirligig beetles spin round continually, creating a dizzy display which confuses potential predators, and yet the beetles appear never to collide.

These include whirligig beetles (Gyrinidae), Haliplidae, Noteridae, Amphizoidae, Dytiscidae, and Hydroscaphidae.

One beetle family, the whirligig beetles, has divided eyes so that when they are swimming they can see on top of the water and inside the water at the same time.

The Adephaga contain about 10 families of largely predatory beetles, includes ground beetles (Carabidae), Dytiscidae and whirligig beetles (Gyrinidae).

The whirligig beetles are a family (Gyrinidae) of water beetles that usually swim on the surface of the water if undisturbed, though they swim actively underwater when threatened.

Gyrinus is a genus of small aquatic whirligig beetles in the family Gyrinidae native to the Palearctic (including Europe), the Near East, the Nearctic and North Africa.

The eyes are compound and may display remarkable adaptability, as in the case of whirligig beetles (family Gyrinidae), where they are split to allow a view both above and below the waterline.

Whirligig beetles (Gyrinidae) were moderately diverse, although other early beetles (e.g. Dytiscidae) were less, with the most widespread being the species of Coptoclavidae, which preyed on aquatic fly larvae.

That same month, water striders, fish spiders and whirligig beetles began plying the pond's surface, while back swimmers and water boatmen worked its depths, cruising for meals of insect larvae and plankton.

Air-dried and preserved behind glass display cases, blister beetles, whirligig beetles and snout beetles are among the specimens that scientists hope will show the public that the bugs are interesting and attractive.

Whirligig beetles are most conspicuous by reason of their bewildering swimming, but their coloration is not showy and commonly they can be quite hard to see if they are not moving or are under water.

Adult crawling water beetles use both their elytra and their hind coxae (the basal segment of the back legs) in air retention, while whirligig beetles simply carry an air bubble down with them whenever they dive.

Bog water is important for the reproduction of dragonflies and damselflies and the Wicklow mountain bogs also support insects such as pond skaters, whirligig beetles, water boatmen and midges as well as the common frog and the viviparous lizard.

The surface in June looked like Long Island Sound from the air, with water striders and whirligig beetles zooming here and about like pleasure boats, inscribing the water with their distinctive wakes as they dart among islands of algae and a flotsam of tree pollen, catkins and leaves.

The Gyrinidae are surface swimmers for preference.

Porrorhynchus is a genus of beetles in the family Gyrinidae, containing the following species:

A revision of the Australian Gyrinidae.

Dineutus is a genus of beetle within the family of whirligig beetles, or Gyrinidae.

Essai monographique de la famille des Gyrinidae, pt.

Haliplidae, Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae.

Über Papuanische Gyrinidae.

Unerwartetes Vorkommen von Taumelkäfern (Gyrinidae) auf Curaçao (1963).

Révision des Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae d'Afrique, Madagascar et îles voisines.

Gyrinopsis antiquus is an extinct species of fossil beetle in the family Gyrinidae, the only species in the genus Gyrinopsis.

Die Sunda-Gyriniden des Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense (Col., Gyrinidae) (1953)

Die Gyriniden-fauna von Neuguinea nach dem erzeitigen Stand unserer Kenntnisse (Coleoptera, Gyrinidae) (1955).

Alluaud dans l'Afrique Orientale: Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Hydrophilidae [includes Haliplidae].

New distributional records for Gyrinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) on New Guinea and nearby islands, with a checklist of the New Guinea species.

Coléoptères aquatiques (Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae et Hydrophilidae) recueillis dans le sud de Madagascar par M. Ch.

Maurice Auguste Régimbart (1852, Evreux - 22 September 1907, Evreux) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, particularly Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae and Hydrophilidae.

The Gyrinidae generally have been regarded as a family in the Adephaga, but there is a great deal of work underway to clarify the relationships both within the Adephaga and within the Coleoptera in general.

Ocks collections of Carabidae, Staphylinidae and Cerambycidae and general collections from Central Europe are in Senckenberg Museum[1], Frankfurt am Main as is his world collection of Gyrinidae.

Identification manual for the water beetles of Florida (Coleoptera: Dryopidae, Dytiscidae, Elmidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hydraenidae, Hydrophilidae, Noteridae, Psephenidae, Ptilodactylidae, Scirtidae).

The forelegs of the Mantispidae, Mantodea, and Phymatinae are adapted to seizing and holding prey in one way, while those of the Gyrinidae long and adapted for grasping food or prey in quite a different way.

Accessory glands or modified structures are present in some taxa: the Dytiscidae and Hygrobiidae also possess paired prothoracic glands secreting steroids; and the Gyrinidae are unique in the extended shape of the external opening of the pygidial gland.