Eulichadidae

Eulichadid Beetles

The family Eulichadidae is poorly known even among water beetle specialists. Larvae are aquatic, while adults are terrestrial. Two genera are known: Stenocolus LeConte, with a single species from western North America, and Eulichas, with 20 species from the Oriental region. The recent paper by Jach (1995) summarizes much of what is known of the family.

Crowson (1973:237) was the first to use the name Eulichadidae, apparently as a replacement name for Lichadidae Forbes (1926:102), which was based upon the preoccupied generic name Lichas (Lawrence and Newton 1995).

Checklist of Genera

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Literature Cited

Crowson, R. A.

• 1973. On a new superfamily Artematopoidea of polyphagan beetles, with the definition of two new fossil genera from the Baltic amber. J. Nat. Hist. 7(2):225-238.

• 1995. Eulichadidae: Synopsis of the species of the genus Eulichas Jacobson from China, Laos and Vietnam (Coleoptera), pp. 359-388. In M. A. Jach and L. Ji, eds. Waterbeetles of China. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft, Vienna.

• 1995. Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references, and data on family-group names), pp. 779-1006. In Biology, phylogeny, and classification of Coleoptera: Papers celebrating the 80th birthday of Roy A. Crowson. J. Pakaluk and S. A. Slipinski, eds.. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warszawa.