The vernacular name water scavenger beetles is not an accurate description of their habit.

Hydrophilus picicornis is a species of water scavenger beetles belonging to the Hydrophilidae family.

Staphyliniformia - includes rove beetles and water scavenger beetles.

Hydrophilidae, also called water scavenger beetles, is a family of chiefly aquatic beetles.

Until recently it only included a single family, the water scavenger beetles (Hydrophilidae), but several of the subfamilies have been removed and raised to family rank.

Earlier systems included all of these families in the family Hydrophilidae.

Formerly it was included within the family Hydrophilidae.

So do predatory water beetles in families such as Dytiscidae and Hydrophilidae.

Ladislav Vodicka founded his own group in 1974 called Hydrophilidae.

Hydrophilus picicornis is a species of water scavenger beetles belonging to the Hydrophilidae family.

They are therefore clumsy in water (compared e.g. with the Dytiscidae or Hydrophilidae), and prefer to get around by crawling.

Hydrochus is a genus of beetle in the family Hydrochidae, formerly placed in the Hydrophilidae.

Aquatic beetles of the family Hydrophilidae often bear a number of different species of Laboulbeniales, often in precise locations.

There are approximately 20 identified species for this genus, with most species occurring on Tropisternus (Hydrophilidae, Coleoptera) from America.

Helophorus ís the only genus in the beetle family Helophoridae (traditionally included within Hydrophilidae as the subfamily Helophorinae).

Alluaud dans l'Afrique Orientale: Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Hydrophilidae [includes Haliplidae].

New and interesting water beetles from Mt. Roraima and Ptari-tepui, Venezuela (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae and Hydrophilidae).

Kuwert described many new species of Passalidae, Cleridae, Helophoridae, Hydrophilidae, Hydraenidae, Elmidae, Heteroceridae and Dryopidae.

In the stages of the Upper Triassic, representatives of the algophagous, or algae-feeding species (e.g. Triaplidae and Hydrophilidae) begin to appear, as well as predatory water beetles.

Coléoptères aquatiques (Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae et Hydrophilidae) recueillis dans le sud de Madagascar par M. Ch.

Types in which the adults are not necessarily aquatic include Hydrophilidae, Lutrochidae, Dryopidae, Elmidae, Eulichadidae, Heteroceridae, Limnichidae, Psephenidae, Ptilodactylidae and Sphaeriusidae.

Maurice Auguste Régimbart (1852, Evreux - 22 September 1907, Evreux) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, particularly Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae and Hydrophilidae.

Among aquatic families - Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, many species of Hydrophilidae and others - the legs, most notably the last pair, are modified for swimming and often bear rows of long hairs to aid this purpose.

Helophoridae belong to the superfamily Hydrophiloidea, and may be the sister taxon of Hydrochidae, or a clade comprising Hydrochidae, Hydrophilidae and Spercheidae or Georissidae and Epimetopidae.

Identification manual for the water beetles of Florida (Coleoptera: Dryopidae, Dytiscidae, Elmidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hydraenidae, Hydrophilidae, Noteridae, Psephenidae, Ptilodactylidae, Scirtidae).

Helochares obscurus is a species of Hydrophilidae in the Hydrophilinae subfamily that can be found in Austria, Baltic states, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain including the Isle of Man, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Scandinavia, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.