Adephaga is the second largest suborder of Coleoptera and contains aquatic terrestrial groups that are sometimes classified as Hydradephaga Geadephaga, respectively. The phylogenetic relationships have been studied intensively, but major subgroups Geadephaga placement Hygrobiidae within Dytiscoidea remain obscure. Here, we infer new DNA-hybridization baits for exon-capture phylogenomics combine...

This paper presents the first complete and updated list of all 3597 species of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) belonging to 92 familiesfound and published in Lithuania until 2011, with comments also provided on the main systematic and nomenclatural changes since the last monographic treatment in two volumes (Pileckis and Monsevičius 1995, 1997). The introductory section provides a general overvie...

aquatic invertebrates are the major group of freshwater animals in aquatic ecosystems in terms of biology and food chain. this study was conducted to identify benthic communities in four stations of the abgarmeh river (saleh abad, the ilam province) during 2007-2008. in this study eighteen families of benthose such as naididae, tubificidae, lumbricidae, erpobdellidae, gammaridae, haliplidae, co...

b a ckground: aquatic insects are the  major groups of arthropods that spend  some parts of their life cycle in the water. these insects play an important role for transmission of some human and animal diseases. there is few information about the aquatic insects fauna of iran. m e t hods: to study the aquatic insects fauna, adult, nymphal and larval collections were carried out from different h...