Gyrininae is a subfamily of ground and water beetles in the family

Gyrinidae The whirligig beetles are water beetles, comprising the family Gyrinidae, that usually swim on the surface of the water if undisturbed, though they swim underwater when threatened. They get their common name from their habit of swimming rapidly ...

. There are at least 740 described extant species in Gyrininae.

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Taxonomy after * Dineutini ** '' Cretodineutus'' -

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. Th ...

, Late Cretaceous (

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age (geology), age of the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch or the lowest stage (stratigraphy), stage of the Upper Cretace ...

) ** '' Cretogyrus'' - Burmese amber, Cenomanian ** '' Dineutus'' ** '' Enhydrus'' ** '' Macrogyrus'' (including '' Andogyrus'' ) ** '' Mesodineutes'' - Darmakan Formation, Russia,

Danian The Danian is the oldest age or lowest stage of the Paleocene Epoch or Series, of the Paleogene Period or System, and of the Cenozoic Era or Erathem. The beginning of the Danian (and the end of the preceding Maastrichtian) is at the Cretac ...

** '' 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 subgen ...

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

Metagyrinus ''Metagyrinus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Gyrinidae The whirligig beetles are water beetles, comprising the family Gyrinidae, that usually swim on the surface of the water if undisturbed, though they swim underwater when threatened. ...

'' * 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 aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. it was found to be a member ...

'' - 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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