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

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	754 15371 60267	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	750 15333 60124	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	715 15096 59373	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	442 12146 51799	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Beetles, Coleopterans	116 4223 17152	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Adephaga Schellenberg, 1806 Adephagans, Ground Beetles and Water Beetles	6 468 2421	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Southern Africa
6 Families width 2421 Species and 339 Subspecies

Aspidytidae Ribera, Beu..., 2002	Cliff water beetles	1	Species	Taxom
Carabidae Latreille, 1802	Carabid beetles	2131	Species	Taxom
Dytiscidae Leach, 1815	Diving beetles	218	Species	Taxom
Gyrinidae Latreille, 1802	Whirligig beetle	50	Species	Taxom
Haliplidae Aubé, 1836	Crawling Water Beetle	9	Species	Taxom
Noteridae C. G. Thomson, 1860	Burrowing water beetle	12	Species	Taxom

Subnodes of Adephaga with occurrences in Southern Africa

Superfamily	Caraboidea Latreille, 1802	1 392 2131	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Dytiscoidea Leach, 1815	3 65 231	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Gyrinidae Latreille, 1802 whirligig beetle, Whirligig beetles	8 50	Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Haliplidae Aubé, 1836 Crawling Water Beetle, Crawling water beetles, Haliplids	3 9	Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

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