Adephaga: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Adephaga
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Adephaga
The Adephaga (from Greek ἀδηφάγος, adephagos, "gluttonous") are a suborder of beetles, and with more than 40,000 recorded species in 10 families, the second-largest of the four beetle suborders. Members of this suborder are collectively known as adephagans. The largest family is Carabidae (ground beetles) which comprises most of the suborder with over 40,000 species. Adephaga also includes a variety of aquatic beetles, such as predaceous diving beetles and whirligig beetles.
...Adephaga in languages:
- Chinese
- 肉食亞目
- Czech
- masožraví
- English
- Ground and Water Beetles
- Estonian
- röövmardikalised
- Finnish
- petokuoriaiset
- Hungarian
- Ragadozó bogarak
- Japanese
- オサムシ亜目
- Japanese
- 食肉亜目
- Korean
- 식육아목
- Lithuanian
- Plėšrieji vabalai
- Modern Greek
- Αδηφάγα
- Polish
- Chrząszcze drapieżne
- Russian
- Плотоядные жуки
- Swedish
- rovskalbaggar
- Thai
- ด้วงดิน ด้วงดิ่ง ฯลฯ
- Ukrainian
- Жуки хижаки
- Ukrainian
- Жуки м'ясоїдні
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