''Hydrodytes'' is a genus of

predaceous diving beetle The Dytiscidae – based on the Greek ''dytikos'' (δυτικός), "able to dive" – are the predaceous diving beetles, a Family (biology), family of water beetles. They occur in virtually any freshwater habitat around the world, but a ...

s in the family

Dytiscidae The Dytiscidae – based on the Greek ''dytikos'' (δυτικός), "able to dive" – are the predaceous diving beetles, a family of water beetles. They occur in virtually any freshwater habitat around the world, but a few species live a ...

. There are at least three described species in ''Hydrodytes''. It is found in North America and the

Neotropics The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical Ecoregion#Terrestrial, terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperat ...

Species

These three species belong to the genus ''Hydrodytes'': * ''

Hydrodytes dodgei ''Hydrodytes dodgei'' is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae The Dytiscidae – based on the Greek ''dytikos'' (δυτικός), "able to dive" – are the predaceous diving beetles, a family of water beetles ...

'' (Young, 1989) * ''

Hydrodytes inaciculatus ''Hydrodytes'' is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least three described species in ''Hydrodytes''. It is found in North America and the Neotropics. Species These three species belong to the genus ''Hyd ...

'' (Guignot, 1957) * '' Hydrodytes opalinus'' (Zimmermann, 1921)

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