Species list, Checklist of Suborder Adephaga (Adephagans) for Nigeria (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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Checklist for Suborder Adephaga Schellenberg, 1806 (Adephagans)
and region Nigeria (West Africa)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	388 4495 12408	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	385 4491 12404	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	368 4385 12052	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	234 3464 10323	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Beetles, Coleopterans	55 803 1784	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Adephaga Schellenberg, 1806 Adephagans, Ground Beetles and Water Beetles	4 119 303	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Nigeria
4 Families width 303 Species and 56 Subspecies

Carabidae Latreille, 1802	Carabid beetles	283	Species	Taxom
Dytiscidae Leach, 1815	Diving beetles	3	Species	Taxom
Gyrinidae Latreille, 1802	Whirligig beetle	16	Species	Taxom
Noteridae C. G. Thomson, 1860	Burrowing water beetle	1	Species	Taxom

Subnodes of Adephaga with occurrences in Nigeria

Superfamily	Caraboidea Latreille, 1802	1 106 283	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Dytiscoidea Leach, 1815	2 8 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Gyrinidae Latreille, 1802 whirligig beetle, Whirligig beetles	5 16	Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

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