Sperheids ( lat. Spercheidae ) - a family of insects of the order Coleoptera , including one genus Spercheus Kugelann, 1798 and six species. Little water bugs.
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 Spercheus emarginatus | ||||||||||||||||||
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Spercheus babylonicus |
Distribution
Mostly residents of the Old World. In South America, there is one species. One species lives in Russia - Spercheus emarginatus . The oldest find of the family in a fossil state is considered to be Prospercheus cristatus from the upper Jurassic of Mongolia [1] .
Notes
- ↑ AG Ponomarenko, AA Prokin. Review of paleontological data on the evolution of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera ) // Paleontological Journal. - 2015-12-01. - Vol. 49 , iss. 13 . - P. 1383-1412 . - ISSN 1555-6174 . - DOI : 10.1134 / S0031030115130080 .