''Hygrobia hermanni'', commonly known as the screech beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Hygrobiidae. It is found in Southern and Western Europe and North Africa Fauna Europaea in stagnant and muddy waters. It able to make a strident grating noise, hence the name screech beetle. The sound is produced when the sharp edge of the 7th abdominal tergite is rubbed against a subapical median file on the elytral undersurface.

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Adephaga Beetles described in 1775 Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius {{Adephaga-stub