Gyrininae is a subfamily of ground and water beetles in the family Gyrinidae. There are at least 60 described species in Gyrininae.

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Taxonomy after * Dineutini ** '' Cretodineutus'' - Burmese amber, Late Cretaceous (

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...

) ** '' Cretogyrus'' - Burmese amber, Cenomanian ** ''

Dineutus ''Dineutus'' is a genus of beetles in the family whirligig beetle, Gyrinidae, the whirligig beetles. They are 9 to 15 millimeters long. Their elytron, elytra are smooth, shallowly lined, or grooved. Species include: * ''Dineutus abyssinicus'' ...

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Enhydrus ''Enhydrus'' is a genus of beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The C ...

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Macrogyrus ''Macrogyrus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Gyrinidae, containing the following species:Andogyrus ''Andogyrus'' is a subgenus of '' Macrogyrus'', a genus of beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing the ...

'' ) ** '' Mesodineutes'' - Darmakan Formation, Russia, Danian ** '' Miodineutes'' - Germany, Miocene ** ''

Porrorhynchus ''Porrorhynchus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Gyrinidae, containing the following species: * '' Porrorhynchus indicans'' (Walker, 1858) * '' Porrorhynchus landaisi'' Régimbart, 1892 * '' Porrorhynchus marginatus'' Laporte, 1835 The su ...

'' * Gyrinini ** '' Aulonogyrus'' ** '' Gyrinoides'' ** ''

Gyrinus ''Gyrinus'' is a genus of small aquatic insects, aquatic whirligig beetles in the family Gyrinidae native to the Palearctic (including Europe), the Near East, the Nearctic, North Africa, Asia and Australia. Species These species belong to the g ...

'' ** '' Metagyrinus'' * Orectochilini ** '' Gyretes'' ** '' Orectochilus'' ** ''

Orectogyrus ''Orectogyrus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Gyrinidae, containing the following species:Patrus'' * ''

Chimerogyrus ''Chimerogyrus gigagalea'' is a fossil species of beetle in the family Gyrinidae, the only known species in the genus ''Chimerogyrus''. It is known from a larval form found in Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, th ...

'' - 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.

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