Species list, Checklist of Suborder Adephaga (Adephagans) for Benin (West Africa)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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INSECTOIDGERENGDARK LIGHT

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Checklist for Suborder Adephaga Schellenberg, 1806 (Adephagans)
and region Benin (West Africa)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	200 1305 2565	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	200 1305 2565	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	191 1271 2495	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	122 1005 2162	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Beetles, Coleopterans	30 458 951	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Adephaga Schellenberg, 1806 Adephagans, Ground Beetles and Water Beetles	4 94 254	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Benin
4 Families width 254 Species and 44 Subspecies

Carabidae Latreille, 1802	Carabid beetles	236	Species	Taxom
Dytiscidae Leach, 1815	Diving beetles	12	Species	Taxom
Gyrinidae Latreille, 1802	Whirligig beetle	6	Species	Taxom
Noteridae C. G. Thomson, 1860	Burrowing water beetle	0	Species	Taxom

Subnodes of Adephaga with occurrences in Benin

Superfamily	Caraboidea Latreille, 1802	1 83 236	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Dytiscoidea Leach, 1815	2 7 12	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Gyrinidae Latreille, 1802 whirligig beetle, Whirligig beetles	4 6	Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Adephaga at artfakta.se
Adephaga at dyntaxa.se
Adephaga at itis.gov