Gyrininae Explained

Gyrininae is a subfamily of ground and water beetles in the family Gyrinidae. There are at least 740 described extant species in Gyrininae.^{[1] [2]}

Genera

Taxonomy after^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

• • • Dineutini Cretodineutus ^[7] - Burmese amber, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
  • Cretogyrus ^[8] - Burmese amber, Cenomanian
  • Dineutus
  • Enhydrus
  • Macrogyrus (including Andogyrus)
  • Mesodineutes - Darmakan Formation, Russia, Danian
  • Miodineutes - Germany, Miocene
  • Porrorhynchus
    • Gyrinini Aulonogyrus
  • Gyrinoides
  • Gyrinus
  • Metagyrinus
    • Orectochilini Gyretes
  • Orectochilus
  • Orectogyrus
  • Patrus
• Chimerogyrus ^[8] - Burmese amber, Cenomanian

References

• Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2, 779–1006.
• Miller, Kelly B., and Johannes Bergsten (2012). "Phylogeny and classification of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): relaxed-clock model outperforms parsimony and time-free Bayesian analyses". Systematic Entomology, vol. 37, no. 4, 706–746.
• Roughley, R. E. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., and Michael C. Thomas, eds. (2001). "Family 7. Gyrinidae Latreille, 1810". American Beetles, vol. 1: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia, 133–137.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (21 December 2000) American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gyrininae Subfamily Information. BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. 2018-01-25.
2. Web site: Gyrininae Report. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 2018-01-25.
3. Miller. K.B.. Bergsten. J.. 2012. Phylogeny and classification of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): relaxed-clock model outperforms parsimony and time-free Bayesian analyses. Systematic Entomology. 37. 4. 706–746. 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00640.x. 17676861 .
4. Gustafson. G.T.. Miller. K.B.. 2013. On the family- and genus-series nomina in Gyrinidae Latreille, 1810 (Coleoptera, Adephaga). Zootaxa. 3731. 1. 77–105. 10.11646/zootaxa.3731.1.3. 25277555 .
5. Gustafson. G.T.. Prokin. A.A.. Bukontaite. R.. Bergsten. J.. Miller. K.B.. 2017. Tip-dated phylogeny of whirligig beetles reveals ancient lineage surviving on Madagascar. Scientific Reports. 7. 1 . 8619. 10.1038/s41598-017-08403-1. free. 28831048 . 5567340. 2017NatSR...7.8619G .
6. Gustafson. G.T.. Miller. K.B.. 2017. Systematics and evolution of the whirligig beetle tribe Dineutini (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae: Gyrininae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 181. 1. 118–150. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw014.
7. Zulong Liang . Zhihao Qi . Jiahui Chen . Fenglong Jia . 2020 . Cretodineutus rotundus gen. et sp. nov., the oldest adult whirligig beetle from the Upper Cretaceous of Myanmar (Coleoptera, Gyrinidae, Gyrininae) . Cretaceous Research . 106 . Article 104251 . 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104251 . 2020CrRes.10604251L . 204257893 .
8. Gustafson, Grey T.. Michat, Mariano C.. Balke, Michael. 2020. Burmese amber reveals a new stem lineage of whirligig beetle (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) based on the larval stage. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 189. 4. 1232–1248. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz161. 32780030 . 7398075.