Hydrophilidae (Giant Water Scavenger Beetles) Beetle Adult Pictures

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Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

» Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

» Class Insecta (Insects)

» Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

» Family Hydrophilidae (Giant Water Scavenger Beetles)

This is a water beetle. It is the hardest object in the world to pick up with tweezers. The second hardest is Mount Everest.

This beetle was collected from the Upper Midwest on January 13th, 2004 and added to Troutnut.com on January 25th, 2006.

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Recent Discussions of this Adult

Giant Water Scavenger Beetle 3 Replies »

Posted by GONZO on Oct 14, 2006

Last reply on Nov 27, 2006 by GONZO

I'm not great on beetle identification, but this one seems pretty easy--Hydrophilus triangularis.

Reply Beetle ID 1 Reply »

Posted by DMM on Nov 19, 2006

Last reply on Nov 20, 2006 by Troutnut

Beetles can be very tricky to identify. It has been my experience that it is extremely difficult to identify many insects to the species level based on pictures alone. It may not be able to be positively identified to genus either. The family is probably correct though, except the family isn't listed here. The family should be Hydrophilidae. Hydrophiloidea is a superfamily designation. Having said that, GONZO's ID could be correct (and if he has the experience, probably is), it's just not possible for me to confirm this.

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