Dytiscidae - Agabinae, Colymbetinae
Descriptions and Identification Keys
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- Aubé, C. (1837) Iconographie et Histoire naturelle des Coléoptères d'Europe. Tome 5. Paris: Méquignon.
- Balfour-Browne, F. (1953) Coleoptera: Hydradelphaga. Royal Entomological Society of London Handbook 4(3).
- Bergsten, J. & Miller, K.B. (2006) "Taxonomic revision of the Holarctic diving beetle genus Acilius Leach (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)." Systematic Entomology 31: 145-197.
- du Chatenet, G. (2005) Coléoptères d'Europe. Carabes, Carabiques, et Dytiques. Tome I. Adephaga. Vitry-sur-Seine: N.A.P. Editions.
- Duff, A.G. (2012) Beetles of Britain and Ireland. Volume 1: Sphaeriusidae to Silphidae. West Runton: A.G. Duff.
- Erichson, W.F. (1837) Die Käfer der Mark Brandenburg. Erster Band. Erste Abtheilung. Berlin: Morin.
- Fabricius, J.C. (1792) Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta : Secundun classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tom. 1. Hafniae: C.G. Proft.
- Fabricius, J.C. (1801) Systema Eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tom. 1. Kiliae: Bibliopoli Academici.
- Forster, J.R. (1771) Novae Species Insectorum. Centuria I. Londoni: T. Davies.
- Foster, G.N. & Friday, L.E. (2011) Keys to Adults of the Water Beetles of Britain and Ireland. Part I. Coleoptera: Hydradephaga: Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Paelobiidae, Noteridae and Dytiscidae. Royal Entomological Society of London Handbook 4(5).
- Freude, H., Harde, K.W., & Lohse, G.A. (eds, 1971) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 3. Adephaga 2, Palpicornia, Hiteroidea, Staphylinoidea 1. Krefeld: Goecke & Evers.
- Friday, L.E. (1988) "A key to the adults of British water beetles." Field Studies 7: 1-151.
- Guignot, F. (1947) Coléoptères hydrocanthares. Paris: Éditions Faune de France 48.
- Gyllenhal, L. (1808-10) Insecta Suecica descripta. Classis 1. Coleoptera sive Eleuterata. Pars. 1, 2. Lipsiae: Fleischer.
- Klausnitzer, B. (1991) Die Larven der Käfer Mitteleuropas. 1. Band. Adephaga. Krefeld: Goecke & Evers.
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae. Tomus I. Regnum Animale. Holmiae: L. Salvii
- Linné, C. (1766-7, 2e edn) Systema Naturae. Tomus I. Regnum Animale. Holmiae: L. Salvii
- Macleay, W.S. (1825) Annulosa Javanica or an Attempt to Illustrate the Natural Affinities and Analogies of the Insects Collected in Java by Thomas Horsfield. London: Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen.
- Nilsson, A.N. (2000) "A new view on the generic classification of the Agabus-group of genera of the Agabini, aimed at solving the problem with a paraphyletic Agabus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)." Koleopterologische Rundschau 70: 17-36.
- Nilsson, A.N. & Cuppen, J.G.M. (1988) "The larvae of North European Colymbetes Claiville (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)." Entomologisk Tidskrift 109: 87-96.
- Nilsson, A.N. & Holmen, M. (1995) The Aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. II. Dytiscidae Leiden: Brill 32.
- Paykull, G. (1798) Fauna Suecica. Insecta. Tomus I. Uppsala: J.F. Edman.
- Stephens, J.F. (1828) A Systematic Catalogue of British Insects : being an attempt to arrange all the hitherto discovered indigenous insects in accordance with their natural affinities. London: Baldwin and Cradock.
- Thomson, C.G. (1870) Opuscula Entomologica. Opusc. 2. Lund: Lundbergska.
- Thunberg, C.P. (1784-94) Dissertatio Entomologica sistens Insecta Svecica. Upsaliae: Edman.
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