Aquatic Coleoptera of Michigan - References

General

Downie NM, and Arnett RH. 1996. The beetles of Northeastern North America. Volume I. Introduction; Suborders Archostemata, Adephaga, and Polyphaga, thru Superfamily Cantharoidea. The Sandhill Crane Press: Gainesville, Florida. xiv + 880 pp.
Hilsenhoff WL. 1995. Aquatic Insects of Wisconsin. Keys to Wisconsin Genera and Notes on Biology, Habitat, Distribution and Species. Publication Number 3 of the Natural History Museums Council, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Chrysomelidae

Jolivet P, Hawkeswood TJ. 1995. Host-plants of Chrysomelidae of the World: An Essay about the Relationships Between the Leaf-beetles and their Food-plants. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, Netherlands. 281 pp. + xiii.
Jolivet P., Verma KK. 2002. Biology of leaf beetles. Intercept Limited: Andover, UK. 332 pp. + xiv

Dytiscidae

Hilsenhoff WL. 1975. Notes on Nearctic Acilius (Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 68(2): 271-274.
Hilsenhoff WL. 1980. Coptotomus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in eastern North America with descriptions of two new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 105:461-471.
Larson DJ., Alarie Y., Roughley RE. 2000. Predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 982 pp.
Roughley, RE. 1990. A systematic revision of species of Dytiscus Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Part 1. Classification based on adult stage. Quaestiones Entomologicae 26:383-557.
Zimmerman, JR. 1981. A revision of the Colymbetes of North America (Dytiscidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 35(1):1-52.

Dryopidae

Brown HP. 1972. Aquatic dyropoid beetles (Coleoptera) of the United States. Biota of Freshwater Ecosystems Identification Manual No. 6. United States Environmental Protection Agency Project # 18050, Contract #14-12-894, April 1972.
Hilsenhoff WL, Schmude KL. 1992. Riffle beetles of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Dryopidae, Elmidae, Lutrochidae, Psephenidae) with notes on distribution, habitat, and identification. The Great Lakes Entomologist 25(3):191-209.

Elmidae

Brown HP. 1972. Aquatic dyropoid beetles (Coleoptera) of the United States. Biota of Freshwater Ecosystems Identification Manual No. 6. United States Environmental Protection Agency Project # 18050, Contract # 14-12-894, April 1972. x + 82 pp.
Brown HP. 1983. A catalog of the Coleoptera of America north of Mexica. Family: Elmidae. United States Department of Agriculture Handbook 529-50. x + 23 pp.
Hilsenhoff WL, Schmude KL. 1992. Riffle beetles of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Dryopidae, Elmidae, Lutrochidae, Psephenidae) with notes on distribution, habitat, and identification. The Great Lakes Entomologist 25(3):191-209.
Schmude KL. 1992. Revision of the riffle beetle genus Stenelmis (Coleoptera: Elmidae) in North America, with notes on bionomics. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin. 388 pp.
Schmude KL, Barr CB, Brown HP. 1992. Stenelmis lignicola and Stenelmis xylonastis, two new North American species of wood-inhabiting riffle beetles (Coleoptera: Elmidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 94(4):580-594.

Gyrinidae

Hilsenhoff WL. 1990. Gyrinidae of Wisconsin, with a key to adults of both sexes and notes on distribution and habitat. The Great Lakes Entomologist 23(2):77-91.
Oygur S., Wolfe GW. 1991. Classification, distribution, and phylogeny of North American (North of Mexico) species of Gyrinus Müller (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 207:1-97.

Haliplidae

Hydrophylidae

Hardy AR, Bheary BS, Malcolm SE . 1981. A clarification of the authorship of some names in Laccobius Erichson (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 57(1):303-305.
Hilsenhoff WL. 1995. Aquatic Hydrophilidae and Hydraenidae of Wisconsin (Coleoptera). II. Distribution, habitat, life cycle and identification of species of Hydrobiini and Hydrophilini (Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilinae). The Great Lakes Entomologist 28(2):97-126.
Smetana A. 1974. Revision of the genus Cymbiodyta Bed. (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 93. 113 p.
Smetana A. 1988. Review of the family Hydrophilidae of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 142. 316 p.
Willson RB. 1970. The Hydrophilidae of Michigan with keys to species of the Great Lakes region. MS Thesis, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. vi + 100 p.

Luctrochidae

Brown HP. 1972. Aquatic dyropoid beetles (Coleoptera) of the United States. Biota of Freshwater Ecosystems Identification Manual No. 6. United States Environmental Protection Agency Project # 18050, Contract # 14-12-894, April 1972. x + 82 pp.
Hilsenhoff WL, Schmude KL. 1992. Riffle beetles of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Dryopidae, Elmidae, Lutrochidae, Psephenidae) with notes on distribution, habitat, and identification. The Great Lakes Entomologist 25(3):191-209.

Ptilodactylidae

Funk DH, Fenstermacher H. 2002. Description of the aquatic larva and pupa of Paralichas trivittis (Coleoptera: Ptilodactylidae), with notes on its biology. Entomological News 113(5): 344-354.

Psephenidae

Brigham WU. 1981. Ectopria leechi, a new false water penny from the United States (Coleooptera: Eubriidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 57:313-320.
Brown HP, Murvosh CM. 1974. A revision of the genus Psephenus (water-penny beetles) of the United States and Canada (Coleoptera, Dryopoidea, Psephenidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 100:289-340.

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