Stilobezzia coquilletti is a species of predaceous midges in the family Ceratopogonidae.
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Stilobezzia antennalis is a species of predaceous midge in the family Ceratopogonidae.
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Stilobezzia beckae is a species of predaceous midges in the family Ceratopogonidae.
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Alluaudomyia paraspina is a species of predaceous midge in the family Ceratopogonidae.
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Allohelea johannseni is a species of predaceous midge in the family Ceratopogonidae.
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Alluaudomyia needhami is a species of predaceous midge in the family Ceratopogonidae.
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Stilobezzia viridis is a species of predaceous midges in the family Ceratopogonidae.
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Stilobezzia sybleae is a species of predaceous midges in the family Ceratopogonidae.
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Downeshelea stonei is a species of predaceous midges in the family Ceratopogonidae.
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Copelatus ilybioides is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in Africa.
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Sanfilippodytes edwardsi is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It's found in North America.
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Rhantus calidus is a species of predaceous diving beetles in the genus Rhantus that was described in 1792.
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This is a list of 323 species in Stilobezzia, a genus of predaceous midges in the family Ceratopogonidae.
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This is a list of 182 species in Alluaudomyia, a genus of predaceous midges in the family Ceratopogonidae.
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Dicrodiplosis californica, the mealybug-destroying predaceous gall midge, is a species of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae.
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Ilybius fraterculus is a species of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoscutopterus hornii is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus fortis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus anthracinus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoporus carolinus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus melsheimeri is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus approximatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus antennatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoporus clypealis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Graphoderus occidentalis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydrovatus brevipes is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Dytiscus hybridus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Desmopachria portmanni is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in the Neotropics.
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Celina hubbelli is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus badiellus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Laccophilus undatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus austinii is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Rhantus sinuatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Ilybius incarinatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoporus superioris is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus canadensis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Laccophilus pictus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in the Neotropics.
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Hydroporus larsoni is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Laccodytes pumilio is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Oreodytes snoqualmie is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus audeni is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Heterosternuta diversicornis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Dysartia is a genus of fly in the family Chloropidae. they are known to be predaceous on Grasshopper eggs.
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Platambus semivittatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus rectus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Ilybiosoma seriatum is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoporus shermani is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Coptotomus loticus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Uvarus lacustris is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoporus undulatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoscutopterus angustus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Platythyrea is a genus of predaceous ants in the subfamily Ponerinae and the sole member of the tribe Platythyreini.
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Liodessus crotchi is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Rhantus sericans is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydrovatus peninsularis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus rufinasus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Sanfilippodytes pseudovilis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Oreodytes quadrimaculatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Coptotomus longulus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydaticus cinctipennis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Rhantus binotatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Oreodytes abbreviatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Dytiscus carolinus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Colymbetes densus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Uvarus falli is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Colymbetes incognitus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Nebrioporus macronychus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoporus dimidiatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Eretes explicitus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Acilius sylvanus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Dytiscus cordieri is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Bidessonotus pulicarius is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Rhantus consimilis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydrovatus pustulatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Oreodytes crassulus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabinus glabrellus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus leptapsis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydrocolus persimilis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Colymbetes sculptilis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Sanfilippodytes pacificus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus niger is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Uvarus subtilis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Matus ovatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Rhantus wallisi is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Ilybius quadrimaculatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Oreodytes angustior is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Ilybius vancouverensis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus columbianus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Ilybius pleuriticus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus occidentalis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Lioporeus pilatei is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Laccornis latens is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Stictotarsus deceptus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Thermonectus intermedius is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus pisobius is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Liodessus affinis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydrocolus deflatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Graphoderus fascicollis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus tenebrosus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Ilybius ignarus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Ilybius gagates is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoclypeodytes discretus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Liodessus noviaffinis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Derovatellus floridanus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Oreodytes laevis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Oreodytes congruus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus smithi is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Ilybius larsoni is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Heterosternuta cocheconis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Ilybius biguttulus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Uvarus granarius is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Sanfilippodytes brumalis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydaticus piceus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus mannerheimi is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydrotrupes palpalis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus despectus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Acilius abbreviatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Laccornis pacificus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydrocolus paugus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Dytiscus hatchi is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Sanfilippodytes terminalis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus semipunctatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus kootenai is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus tartaricus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydrodytes dodgei is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoclypeodytes pictodes is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus appalachius is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Ilybius lineellus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoporus vitiosus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Oreodytes obesus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus longiusculus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Oreodytes alaskanus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Acilius confusus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabinus sculpturellus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoporus sulcipennis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoporus spurius is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Oreodytes picturatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Colymbetes exaratus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus dentellus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Acilius fraternus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus ajax is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus falli is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Heterosternuta ohionis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus lutosus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus rufilabris is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus bicolor is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoclypeodytes plicipennis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus gossei is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus signatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Acilius semisulcatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus strigulosus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus pervicinus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus phaeopterus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus griseipennis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Neoporus aulicus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus inscriptus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Ilybius hypomelas is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus punctulatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Uvarus texanus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Sanfilippodytes latebrosus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Laccornis conoideus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Celina slossoni is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Agabus punctatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Rhantus dani is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the genus Rhantus that was discovered by Balke in 2001.
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Stilobezzia is a genus of predaceous midges in the family Ceratopogonidae. There are more than 330 described species in Stilobezzia.
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Alluaudomyia is a genus of predaceous midges in the family Ceratopogonidae. There are more than 180 described species in Alluaudomyia.
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Allohelea is a genus of predaceous midges in the family Ceratopogonidae. There are more than 30 described species in Allohelea.
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Downeshelea is a genus of predaceous midges in the family Ceratopogonidae. There are more than 20 described species in Downeshelea.
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Hydroporinae is a subfamily of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least 2,200 described species in Hydroporinae.
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Agabus disintegratus, the disintegrated diving beetle, is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae occurring in North America.
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Agabetes acuductus is a species of predaceous diving beetle found in the United States and Canada. Its habitat includes wooded wetlands, in the leaf litter of shaded pools, and cattail ponds.D.J. Larson, Y. Alarie, and R.E. Roughley. (2001). Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska.
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The cave rats lived in the more inaccessible fissures and clefts of the Lewis's Rocks, making it secure from the predaceous animals.
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Stictotarsus corvinus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Hydroporus tristis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Colymbetes dolabratus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Hydaticus aruspex is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Agabus clavicornis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Agabus confinis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Laccophilus horni is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Hydroporus notabilis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Neobidessus pulloides is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Desmopachria mexicana is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Coptotomus interrogatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Pachydrus princeps is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Neobidessus pullus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Dytiscus habilis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Rhantus gutticollis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Stictotarsus decemsignatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Laccophilus mexicanus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Dytiscus dauricus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Neoclypeodytes cinctellus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Rhantus suturellus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Liodessus obscurellus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Desmopachria convexa is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and South America.
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Colymbetes dahuricus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Anodocheilus exiguus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Ilybius discedens is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Rhantus atricolor is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Celina angustata is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and South America.
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Celina imitatrix is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Laccophilus biguttatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Coptotomus venustus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Laccophilus oscillator is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Desmopachria dispersa is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Laccophilus quadrilineatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Ilybius subaeneus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Ilybius picipes is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Ilybius angustior is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Hydroporus puberulus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Colymbetes paykulli is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Celina occidentalis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Dytiscus circumcinctus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Hydroporus lapponum is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Ilybius erichsoni is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Ilybius opacus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Sinoporus is an extinct genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Sinoporus, S. lineatus.
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Liadroporus is an extinct genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Liadroporus, L. elegans.
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Liadytiscus is an extinct genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least three described species in Liadytiscus.
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Mesoderus is an extinct genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least four described species in Mesoderus.
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Liadyxianus is an extinct genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Liadyxianus, L. kirejtshuki.
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Mesodytes is an extinct genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Mesodytes, M. rhantoides.
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Brachyvatus apicatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Agabus infuscatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Megadytes fraternus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Agabus discolor is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Neoclypeodytes fryii is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Agabus elongatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Laccophilus vacaensis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Agabus tristis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Hydroporus striola is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Agabus arcticus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Heterosternuta wickhami, the hydroporus diving beetle, is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Liodessus cantralli, or Cantrall's bog beetle, is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Dytiscus verticalis, the vertical diving beetle, is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Dytiscus fasciventris, the understriped diving beetle, is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Dytiscus harrisii, or Harris's diving beetle, is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydrocolus stagnalis, the hydroporus diving beetle, is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Hydroporus subpubescens is a species in the family Dytiscidae ("predaceous diving beetles"), in the order Coleoptera ("beetles"). It is found in North America.
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Dytiscus marginicollis, the giant green water beetle, is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Kakadudessus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Kakadudessus, K. tomweiri, found in Australasia.
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Petrodessus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Petrodessus, P. conatus, found in Australasia.
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Hydrodytinae is a subfamily of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least two genera and four described species in Hydrodytinae.
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Liadytiscinae is a subfamily of extinct predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about 5 genera and 10 described species in Liadytiscinae.
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Sauger is a large predaceous percid fish species that lives in fresh water and is largely associated with cool temperate climates in North America.
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Hyphydrini is a tribe of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about 16 genera and more than 390 described species in Hyphydrini.
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Hydroporus morio is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America.
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Matinae is a subfamily of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least 3 genera and about 10 described species in Matinae.
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Hydroporus fuscipennis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America.
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Madaglymbus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about 10 described species in Madaglymbus. They are found in Africa.
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Amurodytes is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Amurodytes, A. belovi, found in the Palearctic.
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Ereboporus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Ereboporus, E. naturaconservatus, found in North America.
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Etruscodytes is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Etruscodytes, E. nethuns, found in the Palearctic.
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Incomptodessus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Incomptodessus, I. camachoi, found in the Neotropics.
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Neobidessodes is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about 10 described species in Neobidessodes. They are found in Australasia.
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Psychopomporus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Psychopomporus, P. felipi, found in North America.
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Most of them are brick-red in colour. They are protected from predators by being toxic. The predaceous larvae grow under bark or in leaf litter.
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Graphoderus perplexus, the predacious diving beetle, is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
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Brancuporus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least two described species in Brancuporus. They are found in Australasia.
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Fontidessus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about seven described species in Fontidessus. They are found in the Neotropics.
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Spanglerodessus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Spanglerodessus, S. shorti. They are found in the Neotropics.
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Agabinus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least two described species in Agabinus. They are found in North America.
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Microhydrodytes is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There is one described species in Microhydrodytes, M. elachistus. It is found in the Neotropics.
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Nevertheless, the Austin Chalk will occasionally produce fossils of larger creatures, such as Inoceramus clams, ammonite cephalopods, and large marine vertebrates such as Xiphactinus, a predaceous fish.
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The species is insectivorous. Among other things, it has been known to eat water scavenger beetles, black flies, flesh flies, damselflies, predaceous diving beetles, caddisflies, nematodes, and isopods.
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Liris is a genus of solitary, ground-nesting, predaceous wasps, containing over 300 species. It contains two subgenera: Leptolarra and Motes, with most of the species falling within subgenus Leptolarra.
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Dytiscus alaskanus, known generally as the boreal water beetle or Alaskan diving beetle, is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
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Ilybius oblitus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.This species can tolerate low temperatures, but is still susceptible to freezing.
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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.
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The predaceous aeolis (Himatina trophina) is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.Picton, B. (2017). Himatina trophina (Bergh, 1890). In: MolluscaBase (2017).
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The adults are large (9-11 mm) predaceous stinkbugs, usually dark brown-black mottled with dull yellow. Historically it has been rarely encountered, therefore nothing about its life history is known.
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Nebrioporus depressus in East Lothian, Scotland Nebrioporus depressus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America.
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Boreonectes is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about 16 described species in Boreonectes. They are found in North America, the Neotropics, and the Palearctic.
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Hydrophilids have many predators from a range of different species. Fish, birds, predaceous insects, and turtles are the main predators in their aquatic environments. Humans have also been known to eat hydrophilid beetles.
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Celina is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least 30 described species in Celina. Dytiscidae Species List at Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Texas A&M; University.
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Agabus obliteratus is a species in the family Dytiscidae ("predaceous diving beetles"), in the order Coleoptera ("beetles"). It is found in North America. A subspecies of Agabus obliteratus is A. obliteratus nectris Leech, 1942.
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Lancetes is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae, the only member of the subfamily Lancetinae. There are more than 20 described species in Lancetes, found in Australasia and the Neotropics.
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Coptotomus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae, the only genus of the subfamily Coptotominae. There are about six described species in Coptotomus, found in North America and the Neotropics.
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Although most species of checkered beetles are predaceous in nature, some are scavengers and others have been found feeding on flower pollen.McNamara, J. (1991) "Family Cleridae: checkered beetles" (PDF). In: Bousquet, Y. (Ed.). Checklist of the Beetles of Canada and Alaska.
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They are predaceous but are often scavengers. Its appearance and habits ally it, to some extent, with Formica rufibarbis, although the former's red markings are far less conspicuous. Horace Donisthorpe comments: :Forel points out that [Formica fusca var.] rubescens [=F.
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Although the defensive compounds are usually repellents, some natural enemies are actually attracted to them and use them to locate their prey or host. This has been shown for the predaceous hoverfly Parasyrphus nigritarsis and the phorid fly Megaselia opacicornis.
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Many species complete their life cycle inside the bodies of their hosts. The larvae of a few fly groups (Agromyzidae, Anthomyiidae, Cecidomyiidae) are capable of inducing plant galls. Some dipteran larvae are leaf-miners. The larvae of many brachyceran families are predaceous.
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Isoperla carbonaria is a rheophilous species characterised by relatively small size, reaching a length of about 10–13 mm. The basis colour is yellowish. The larvae of this predaceous stonefly mainly feed on Chironomidae, actively hunted across the surface of the substratum.
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Chitin synthesis inhibitors can also kill eggs by disrupting normal embryonic development. Chitin synthesis inhibitors affect insects for longer periods of time than hormonal IGRs. These are also quicker acting but can affect predaceous insects, arthropods and even fish. Compounds include benzoylurea pesticides.
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Cawthorn Lang, K. 2001. "Primate Factsheets: Vervet (Chlorocebus) Taxonomy" (On-line). Similarly, the larger Patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas), at , also dwells in similar habitats and so may be subject to occasional predaceous attacks.Campbell, C.J., Fuentes, A., MacKinnon, K.C., Panger, M., & Bearder, S.K. (2011).
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Since clerids are predaceous in nature, they have been found feeding on fly larvae as well as the skin and bones of carrion. Most clerids are not useful in forensics because of their food choice, but some species such as Necrobia rufipes can be useful. Necrobia rufipes is attracted towards carrion in the later stages of decomposition, so its arrival on carrion can help provide an estimate for the post-mortem interval or PMI. Although the checkered beetle is not the most significant insect on carrion, the beetles predaceous nature and its ability to reproduce in carrion that is exposed to the environment provides some forensic importance.
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Agabus ancillus is a species of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology".
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Hygrotus sayi is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology".
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Sanfilippodytes compertus is a species of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology".
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Oreodytes scitulus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology".
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Graphoderus liberus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology".
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Heterosternuta pulchra is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology".
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Eublemma roseonivea, the predaceous moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found in China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaya and Borneo.Hong Kong Fauna: A Checklist of Selected Taxa The larvae prey on lac insects.
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Hydroporini is a tribe of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least 730 described species in Hydroporini.Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology".
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Animal life in the region responded in various ways to survive. Ants survived the floods by congregating in spheres of living colonies and floated down streams to safety. Predaceous beetle larvae preyed on frogs and rodents. Crustaceans from the beaches migrated en masse to the protection of high ground.
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Parazacco spilurus, also known as the Predaceous chub, is a species of fish in the family Cyprinidae distributes in the Pearl River system, the Hainan Island and northern Vietnam.Ito, T. & Hosoya, K. (2016): Re-examination of the type series of Parazacco spilurus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). FishTaxa, 1 (2): 89-93.
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Laccophilus fasciatus is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in Central America and North America.Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology".
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Ochthera mantis Ochthera is a genus of flies in the family of Shore flies. The genus is distinctive because of the swollen raptorial forelegs. The larvae are predaceous on midge larvae while the adults feed on midges and mosquitoes. The genus is found around the world with about 37 species.
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Leucozona is a genus of hoverflies. Species within this genus typically have a variegated pattern of dull and bright colours on the thorax and abdominal segments such as white or even blue (Leucozona glaucia). This colouration allows the hoverfly to mimic more predaceous bees and wasps, for example Leucozona lucorum.
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Female Cleridae lay between 28–42 eggs at a time predominately under the bark of trees. Larvae are predaceous and feed vigorously before pupation and subsequently emergence as adults. Clerids have a minor significance in forensic entomology. Some species are occasionally found on carrion in the later dry stages of decay.
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Calosoma schayeri (green carab beetle or saffron beetle) is a species of Carabidae that occurs in Australia. Like most Carabidae the larvae is predaceous. It is quite active at night when it is found hunting for slow- moving prey such as caterpillars. If handled it gives off an unpleasant scent.
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Dytiscinae is a subfamily of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least 20 genera and 380 described species in Dytiscinae.Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology".
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Rhantus frontalis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America.Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology".
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Small coelurosaurians are the most diverse dinosaurs, including fellow dromaeosaurid Velociraptor, troodontids Byronosaurus and Saurornithoides, oviraptorids Citipati, Khaan, and Oviraptor, and alvarezsaurs Kol and Shuvuuia; other dinosaurs present included ceratopsians Protoceratops and Udanoceratops, the hadrosaur Plesiohadros, and the ankylosaurid Pinacosaurus. Like other dromaeosaurids, Mahakala would have been a small active predaceous carnivore.
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Natural enemies include the parasitoids Carcelia normula and Charops species and the predaceous bugs Afrius figuratus, Rhynocoris bicolor and other Rhynocoris species. The larvae of subspecies eponina feed on Hibiscus, Sida, Nicotiana, Hermannia, and Triumfetta species. Subspecies manjaca has been reported on Triumfetta rhomboidea, Triumfetta annua, Triumfetta effusa, Triumfetta pilosa and Hermannia species.
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Bidessini is a tribe of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least 40 genera and at least 630 described species in Bidessini.Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology".
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Real, J. (1996). Biases in diet study methods in the Bonelli’s Eagle. Journal of Wildlife Management, 60: 632-638. Despite its predaceous power, typically the average size of prey taken are within average range for a raptorial bird and it may take smaller prey on average than its mildly smaller cousin, the African hawk-eagle.
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They still have grooved maxillae and their tentoriolacinial muscle does not attach to the mesal stipial base. Their larvae, like those of predaceous diving beetles, do not possess eggshell-bursters on the head. It is not yet resolved whether Haliplidae and Dytiscidae are closest relatives, or whether they originated independently from the basal Adephaga.
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This wasp does not rely solely on nectar for food; it is a well-documented predator of a number of different arthropod species.Reyes-Rosas, M. A.; López-Arroyo, J. I.; Buck, M. & Loera-Gallardo, J. (2011). "First report of a predaceous wasp attacking nymphs of Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), Vector of Hlb". Florida Entomologist.
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The subfamily Bipaliinae is characterized by having a semilunar head that gives them the common name "hammerhead worms". The head has peripheral sensory pits on the ventral side and small peripheral eyes on the dorsal side.Winsor, L.; Johns, P. M.; Barker, G. M. (2004). Terrestrial planarians (Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria: Tricladida: Continenticola) predaceous on terrestrial gastropods.
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Most adults and larvae are predaceous, but many are common on flowers. The most common North American species belong to the genus Collops (Malachiinae); C. quadrimaculatus is reddish, with two bluish black spots on each elytron.Triplehorn, C. and Johnson, N.: "Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects, 7th Ed.", page 429. Brooks/Cole, 2005.
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Protomarctus is an extinct monospecific genus of the Borophaginae subfamily of canids native to North America. They lived during the Middle Miocene 16.0—13.6 Mya, existing for approximately .PaleoBiology Database: Protomarctus It was an intermediate-size canid, and more predaceous than earlier borophagines. The first specimen was found in Thomson Quarry, Sheep Creek Formation, Nebraska in a Hemingfordian layer.
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Schistomerus is an extinct genus of predaceous diving beetle that is known from one species, Schistomerus californense, which inhabited Lake Barstow during the middle Miocene. It is the most common beetle found in the concretions from the Barstow Formation. The specimens are typically preserved in three dimensions. All ontogenetic stages of the beetle are present in the concretions.
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Agriculture Canada Publication 1861/E. 208–211. Because of the checkered beetles predaceous nature and insatiable appetite, they are often key players in the biological control of other insects. The checkered beetles have also developed a unique adaptation to aid in their quest for prey. The beetles use pheromones to help them locate, kill, and consume their prey.
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They are thought to be predaceous. Most of the world fauna of Pediacus has been revised recently and the genus is relatively well-known taxonomically. Included species are: In addition to the extant species, a single fossil species, Pediacus periclitans Scudder, has been described from the Eocene deposits at Florissant, Colorado. Its assignment to Pediacus has been questioned.
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Microtomarctus is an extinct monospecific genus of the Borophaginae subfamily of canids native to North America. It lived during the Early to Middle Miocene,PaleoBiology Database: Microtomarctus Taxonomy, Species and existed for approximately . Fossil specimens have been found in Nebraska, coastal southeast Texas, California, New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado. It was an intermediate-size canid, and more predaceous than earlier borophagines.
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Bipalium kewense is believed to be native to Southeast Asia, but currently is found worldwide. It was probably introduced by international plant trade, as it is frequently found associated with plant pots.Winsor, L.; Johns, P. M.; Barker, G. M. (2004) "Terrestrial planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Terricola) predaceous on terrestrial gastropods." In: Barber, G. M. (ed.) Natural enemies of terrestrial molluscs, Wallingford, CABI, 227-278.
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The left side of the limbs are well preserved with the humerus and femur in similar length to the lower legs. Allowing for a high posture and long strides for a predaceous mode of life. The ulna is straight, thick with a well developed olecranon. The left manus is assumed to be complete with what is visible in the fossil.
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Mallophora bomboides, also known as the Florida bee killer, is a predaceous species of robber fly of the family Asilidae that feeds primarily on bumblebees. M. bomboides is a noteworthy instance of Batesian mimicry given its close resemblance to its prey, the bumblebee. These bees are typically found in the Eastern and Southern regions of the United States like South Carolina and Florida.
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Two other films are known, shot in London Zoo Thylacines, uniquely for marsupials, have largely cartilaginous epipubic bones with a highly reduced osseous element.Ronald M. Nowak, Walker's Marsupials of the World, JHU Press, 12/09/2005 This has been once considered a synapomorphy with sparassodonts,Marshall, L. Evolution of the Borhyaenidae, extinct South American predaceous marsupials. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
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Aenictopecheidae is a rare family of insects occurring worldwide but containing only a few species, including a single American species, Boreostolus americanus. This species lives under large, flat stones and sandy substrates along mountain streams in Oregon, Washington, and Colorado. It is 5 mm long and occurs in both the macropterous and brachypterous condition. It is assumed to be predaceous.
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Pro-war rhetoric must "arouse ethnocentrism to a high level of emotional intensity." To achieve this: # The outsider must be hated. To create hatred, orators use “decivilizing vehicles – including references to acts of nature, mechanized processes, predaceous animals, barbarous actions, and violent crimes." # The opposing culture must be shown as a possible threat, using "intense language which exploits the most basic and strongly held cultural values.
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Metatomarctus is an extinct genus of the Borophaginae subfamily of canids native to North America. It lived during the Early to Middle Miocene, 23—16 Mya, existing for approximately Matatomarctus, fossilworks It was an intermediate-size canid, and more predaceous than earlier borophagines. It hunted in packs, like modern canines, and may have preyed upon creatures such as Equus, rodents, and other smaller prey.
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The female has the ability to sense carbon dioxide, which helps it feeds on mammals, especially during the night when it is most active. The larvae are also predaceous and live in the soil adjacent to water and on floating vegetation but can also live in forest sand. The insect's blood is blue. The fly's eyes are brown, but glow yellow under 385 nm UV light.
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Insects of all stages of development are collected. These stages can be in the form of eggs, larva (of which the largest instars are the most important for identification) pupa and adults. Half of these insects will be preserved and the other half will be reared to adults for analysis in the lab. Information on other insects found in the area that are known to be predaceous is documented.
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Some species feed on fungi and a few species are predaceous. Development in thrips is unique. In the Terebrantia the egg stage is followed by 2 larval instars, 1 “prepupal” instar, a “pupal” instar and the adult stage. The prepupal and pupal stages are quiescent and have rudimentary wings. In the Tubulifera there are two “prepupal” instars and one “pupal” instar. Wing rudiments are not present in the first “prepupal” stage.
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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 among leaf litter. The adults of most are between long, though much variation is seen between species. The European Dytiscus latissimus and Brazilian Megadytes ducalis are the largest, reaching up to and respectively.
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Tephrocyon is an extinct genus of the Borophaginae subfamily of canids native to North America. They lived during the Barstovian stage of the Middle Miocene 16.3—13.6 Ma, existing for approximately .PaleoBiology Database: Tephrocyon Taxonomy, Species It is a rarely found genus, with fossil deposits only occurring in western Nebraska, Wyoming, eastern Oregon, New Mexico and north Florida. It was an intermediate-size canid, and more predaceous than earlier borophagines.
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Chresmodidae are large enigmatic insects with very long specialized legs, probably adapted for skating on the water surface, similar to extant water skaters. They can reach a size of about . These Polyneoptera (partial syn Archaeorthoptera) of uncertain position have been considered aquatic, living on the water surface, probably predaceous on nektonic small animals.A. G. Ponomarenko Fossil insects from the Tithonian «Solnhofener Plattenkalke» in the Museum of Natural History, ViennaA.
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Hemicyon was about long, and tall, with somewhat tiger-like proportions and carnassal blades on its teeth for cutting meat. Hemicyon is widely accepted to have been hypercarnivorous and highly predaceous. Unlike modern bears, Hemicyon walked on its toes; it was not plantigrade, but digitigrade, with long metapodials. This suggests that Hemicyon must have been an active hunter and a good runner, and presumably hunted by pursuing prey on open ground.
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Most genera are predaceous and feed on other beetles and larvae; however other genera are scavengers or pollen feeders. Clerids have elongated bodies with bristly hairs, are usually bright colored, and have variable antennae. Checkered beetles range in length between 3 millimeters and 24 millimeters. Cleridae can be identified based on their 5–5–5 tarsal formula, division of sternites, and the absence of a special type of vesicle.
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They are predaceous, and catch their prey with their modified prehensile antennae. They look somewhat like mosquito larvae, on which they prey and frequently destroy in large numbers. Chaoborus are considered opportunistic eaters, as their main diet consists of copepods and cladocerans, though they are believed to prefer copepods. However, they tend to select whatever prey enters its strike zone as it is not known for chasing prey.
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One of the largest representatives of the predaceous diving beetles of the genus Dytiscus, D. latissimus can reach a length around . This beetle is similar in structure to the better-known and widespread D. marginalis, but it is clearly larger and especially wider. The species is usually easy to recognize by the extensions on both sides of the shield. The elytra and the pronotum are dark brown with yellow sides.
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Most proborhyaenids had a robust, hyena-like skull, although one species, Callistoe vincei, had an elongate, narrow skull more reminiscent of a thylacine. The teeth were strongly specialized as carnassials for eating meat, and in Arminiheringia rotated throughout the animal's life to maintain a continuous shearing blade on the tooth. Preserved specimens of their canines lack enamel;Marshall, L. Evolution of the Borhyaenidae, extinct South American predaceous marsupials. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
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Adult Ochthera mantis have been noted to probe sand with their proboscis and when they detect prey such as chirononomid larvae, they are excavated using the fore tibial spines and held between the tibia and femora as the prey is consumed.Deonier, D. L. (1972) Observations on Mating, Oviposition, and Food Habits of Certain Shore Flies (Diptera: Ephydridae) The Ohio Journal of Science. 72(1):22-29 Online All species in the genus are predaceous.
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Mineral-filled gut tracts in B. higginsi suggest they were not filled with sediment at the time of burial, and that the species was a predator of soft prey. Healed injuries, some of which are the result of unsuccessful predaceous attacks, are uncommon in B. higginsi. Carnivory on B. higginsi is also implied by the remains of anomalocaridids and other potential predators. Other exoskeletons show evidence of post-mortem disruption, perhaps because of scavenging.
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Adult M. bomboides prey on bumblebees, their mimetic models, to a great extent. Though their attacks are swift, it is possible that the resemblance of the fly to the prey and mode enhances the likelihood of its success. The same argument for aggressive mimicry in Volucella flies could apply in M. bomboides. Consistent with other members of the family Asilidae, larvae are thought to be predaceous, feeding on soft-bodied insects in the soil.
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Chapman, J. A., & Flux, J. E. (Eds.). (1990). Rabbits, hares and pikas: status survey and conservation action plan. IUCN. Other large mammalian prey can include foxes, with Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) being the 6th most regular prey species in Greenland and about a dozen red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) recorded as taken or scavenged in Norway (predaceous attacks on adult red foxes have been reportedly witnessed).Audet, A. M., Robbins, C. B., & Larivière, S. (2002).
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"Introduced Predaceous Fishes", Recovery Plan for the Native Fishes of the Warner basin and Alkali Subbasin, Oregon State office, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of Interior, Portland, Oregon, April 1998, pp. 28–30. There are over forty mammal species that live in the areas around Crump Lake. These include pronghorn, bighorn sheep, elk, mule deer, cougar, bobcat, and coyotes. Smaller mammals include jackrabbits, ground squirrels, chipmunks, skunks, and muskrats.
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Many species in the tribe Cremastocheilini are known to be predaceous, feeding on hymenopteran larvae or soft-bodied nymphs of Auchenorrhyncha. Spilophorus spp. have been noted feeding on the nesting material and excrement of South African passerine birds, while Spilophorus maculatus has been recorded feeding on Oxyrhachis sp. nymphs and Hoplostomus fuligineus is known to feed on the brood of honey bees in South Africa and the pupae of the wasp Belonogaster petiolata.
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Mesfin, K. (2014). Diversity and Abundance of Birds in Dbla Church Forest, Eastern Tigray, North Ethiopia. Journal of Zoology Studies, 1(5), 1-8. Semi-predaceous and aggressively disposed vultures, like white-headed vultures (Trigonoceps occipitalis) in Africa and red-headed vultures (Sacrogyps calvus) in India as well as the lappet-faced and cinereous vultures, tend to have little tolerance for tawny eagles, with the latter unlikely to approach until these aggressive vultures have had their fill.
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The classification of haliplids as a separate group of Adephaga is unquestioned, and most entomologists believe they developed from terrestrial beetles separately from other types of water beetles. For many decades, the family was in need of revision, the last general catalog being published by A. Zimmermann in 1920. B. J. van Vondel produced an updated catalogue of the known Haliplidae taxa. Like predaceous diving beetles (Dytiscidae), the crawling water beetles form an early offshoot of the Adephaga.
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Carroll characterises the varanoids as "the most advanced of all lizards in achieving large size and an active, predaceous way of life". Some taxa, such as the extinct necrosaurids and the possibly varanoid Gila monsters, were armoured with osteoderms (bony deposits on the skin), and many forms have hinged jaws, allowing them to open their mouths very wide when feeding (though they cannot dislocate their jaws, contrary to popular belief).Carroll, R. L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution.
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Females are usually wingless and look like larvae, but have an adult beetle's eyes, antennae and legs; in the genus Diplocladon, they resemble larvae even more, with small light organs on all trunk segments. Larvae and females live in soil and litter and are predaceous; males may be attracted to lights at night.Branham, M.A. & Wenzel, J.W. (2003) The origin of photic behavior and the evolution of sexual communication in fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Cladistics 19: 1-22.
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Dytiscus ("little diver" based on Greek δυτικός, "able to dive" and the diminutive suffix -ίσκος) is a Holarctic genus of predaceous diving beetles that usually live in wetlands and ponds. There are 26 species in this genus distributed in Europe, Asia, North Africa and North and Central America. They are predators that can reduce mosquito larvae. Dytiscus are large water beetles with a robust, rounded shape and they measure long depending on the exact species involved.
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Individuals vary in coloration based on age and sex: males are bright metallic blue while females and juveniles are more yellow. A defining trait of this species its lack of pelvic fins. The pupfish consume nearly every available food resource at Devils Hole, including beetles, snails, algae, and freshwater crustaceans, with diet varying throughout the year. It is preyed on by the predaceous diving beetle species Neoclypeodytes cinctellus, which was first observed in Devils Hole in 1999 or 2000.
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"Introduced Predaceous Fishes" (PDF), Recovery Plan for the Native Fishes of the Warner basin and Alkali Subbasin, Oregon State office, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of Interior, Portland, Oregon, April 1998, pp. 28–30."Warner sucker (Catostomus warnerensis)", United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of Interior, Reno, Nevada, September 8, 2013. To help preserve and restore the lake's threatened fish populations, the Fish and Wildlife Service developed a species recovery plan in 1998.
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Both horse-flies and botflies (Oestridae) are sometimes referred to as gadflies. Adult horse-flies feed on nectar and plant exudates; the males have weak mouthparts and only the females bite animals to obtain enough protein from blood to produce eggs. The mouthparts of females are formed into a stout stabbing organ with two pairs of sharp cutting blades, and a spongelike part used to lap up the blood that flows from the wound. The larvae are predaceous and grow in semiaquatic habitats.
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The Cleridae contains many species of predaceous beetles that feed on other beetles and beetle larvae in their natural habitat. The most common prey item for checkered beetles are the bark beetles and wood boring beetles. In general, the bulk of adult Cleridae feed mainly on other adult beetles while the larvae stage feed on other beetle larvae. Some checkered beetles are known to have an extremely voracious appetite with some larvae able to consume "several times their own body weight" in a day.
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Chrysomya albiceps is also known to prey on C. megacephala during the larval stage when they must compete for the same food source.Gomes, Leonardo, Marcos Rogério Sanches and Claudio José Von Zuben. 2007. Behavior of the Combined Radial Post-feeding Larval Dispersal of the Blowflies Chrysomya megacephala and Chrysomya albiceps (Diptera, Calliphoridae) Beetles are also known to prey on C. megacephala. C. megacephala is not predaceous in the adult or larval form, preferring to feed on necrophagous material of any kind, such as fish, cows and humans.
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Liometopum apiculatum are opportunistic carnivores and granivores, and have also been observed foraging on dead insects, larger colonies being more predaceous. L. apiculatum also feeds on crustaceans, annelids, mollusks, dead vertebrates, animal droppings, and extrafloral nectar. These ants also obtain nectar or pollen from bear grass and substances from the outside of the ovaries of the flowers of century plants (Agave scabra and Agave chisosensis) and Spanish dagger (Yucca spp.). Workers have been attracted to various foods used as baits including apple sauce, sausage, vegetable soup, sugar water, and cookies.
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Marshall, L. Evolution of the Borhyaenidae, extinct South American predaceous marsupials. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Although the affinities of this species have never been formally analysed, Dukecynus is generally considered to be a basal borhyaenoid, a paraphyletic group of sparassodonts that includes genera like Lycopsis and Prothylacynus that cannot be assigned to one of the major borhyaenoid families like Borhyaenidae or Thylacosmilidae. Compared to other basal borhyaenoids, Dukecynus had a long, narrow snout and was relatively large, with some estimates suggesting this animal weighed up to 68 kilograms (150 lbs).
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The emu typically tries to repel the dingo by jumping into the air and kicking or stamping the dingo on its way down. The emu jumps as the dingo barely has the capacity to jump high enough to threaten its neck, so a correctly timed leap to coincide with the dingo's lunge can keep its head and neck out of danger.Eastman, p. 29. Despite the potential prey-predator relationship, the presence of predaceous dingoes does not appear to heavily influence emu numbers, with other natural conditions just as likely to cause mortality.
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Chresmoda obscura are large enigmatic insects with very long specialized legs, probably adapted for skating on the water surface. They can reach a size of about .Solnhofen Fossilien Atlas These Polyneoptera of uncertain positi on have been considered aquatic and terrestrial bug or phasmids. They should instead be anomalous paraplecopterids living on the water surface, probably predaceous on nektonic small animals.A. G. Ponomarenko Fossil insects from the Tithonian «Solnhofener Plattenkalke» in the Museum of Natural History, Vienna They lived during the Jurassic of Germany, from 150.8 to 145.5 Ma.
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Automixis with central fusion tends to maintain heterozygosity in the passage of the genome from mother to daughter. This form of automixis has been observed in several ant species including the desert ant Cataglyphis cursor, the clonal raider ant Cerapachys biroi, the predaceous ant Platythyrea punctata, and the electric ant (little fire ant) Wasmannia auropunctata. Automixis with central fusion also occurs in the Cape honey bee Apis mellifera capensis, the brine shrimp Artemia parthenogenetica, and the termite Embiratermes neotenicus. Oocytes that undergo automixis with central fusion often display a reduced rate of crossover recombination.
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The temperature is cooler than that of Devils Hole and the dissolved oxygen content is doubled in attempts to reduce thermal and respiratory stress on the fish. At least fifty captive fish populated the refuge as of 2019, with an additional 10-20 in propagation tanks. Eggs laid in the refuge tank are raised to adulthood in a separate tank. While efforts have been made to remove the predaceous beetle Neoclypeodytes cinctellus from the captive population's tank to lessen its depredation on eggs, it has not been removed from Devils Hole.
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While white pelicans are often protected from bird-eating raptors by virtue of their own great size, eagles, especially sympatric Haliaeetus species, may prey on their eggs, nestlings, and fledglings. Occasionally, pelicans and their young are attacked at their colonies by mammalian carnivores, such as jackals and lions. As is common in pelicans, the close approach of a large predaceous or unknown mammal, including a human, at a colony will lead the pelican to abandon its nest in self-preservation. Additionally, crocodiles, especially Nile crocodiles in Africa, readily kill and eat swimming pelicans.
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Some adult Empididae also visit flowers to obtain nectar. At least a few groups (Iteaphila, Anthepiscopus, Anthalia, Allanthalia and Euthyneura) obtain all their protein needs by feeding on pollen. Larvae are generally found in moist soil, rotten wood, dung, or in aquatic habitats and also appear to be predaceous on various arthropods, particularly other Diptera larvae. Some Empididae, such as the European species Hilara maura, have an elaborate courtship ritual in which the male wraps a prey item in silk and presents it to the female to stimulate copulation.
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The Sandhills chub is threatened by disturbances to their environment due to the Carolina Sandhills becoming a more agricultural, residential and tourist area. Damming of headwaters to create golf course ponds has changed the water flow and the habitats of the chub. There is also road management which can sometimes result in stream siltation and use of pesticides in the nearby area may cause water pollution. The main threat to the Sandhills chub is habitat alteration as more predaceous species are being introduced into the North Carolina headwaters.
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It is found in several ant species including the desert ant Cataglyphis cursor, the clonal raider ant Cerapachys biroi, the predaceous ant Platythyrea punctata, and the electric ant (little fire ant) Wasmannia auropunctata. It also occurs in the Cape honey bee Apis mellifera capensis. Oocytes that undergo automixis with central fusion often have a reduced rate of crossover recombination, which helps to maintain heterozygosity and avoid inbreeding depression. Species that display central fusion with reduced recombination include the ants Platythyrea punctata and Wasmannia auropunctata and the Cape honey bee Apis mellifera capensis.
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Some of the animals which have been observed engaging in surplus killing include zooplankton, damselfly naiads, predaceous mites, martens, weasels, honey badgers, wolves, jaguars, orcas, red foxes, leopards, lions, spotted hyenas, spiders, brown bears, American black bears, polar bears, coyotes, lynx, mink, raccoons, dogs, and humans. There are many documented examples of predators exhibiting surplus killing. For example, researchers in Canada's Northwest Territories once found the bodies of 34 neonatal caribou calves that had been killed by wolves and scattered—some half-eaten and some completely untouched—over . In Tasmania, in a single dog attack, 58 penguins were killed.
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Only placentals, and possibly the early mammaliformes Megazostrodon and Erythrotherium, lack them;Jason A. Lillegraven, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, William A. Clemens, Mesozoic Mammals: The First Two-Thirds of Mammalian History, University of California Press, 17/12/1979 - 321 in thylacines and sparassodonts, they appear to have become primarily cartilaginous and the osseous element has become strongly reduced or even absent.Marshall, L. Evolution of the Borhyaenidae, extinct South American predaceous marsupials. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.naturalworlds.org Trichosurus mimicked placentals in shifting hypaxial muscles attachment sites from the epipubic to the pelvis, losing the respiratory benefits (see below), but otherwise retains large epipubics.
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Marine hatchetfishes are not the only animals that seek out prey by watching for silhouettes from below. Indeed, many fishes that consider Sternoptychidae prey do so, and to foil their predaceous attempts, the Sternoptychidae have evolved an astounding ability: bioluminescent counter-illumination. Counterillumination (or counter- lighting) involves the production of light by the fish for the purpose of camouflaging its silhouette from observers lurking below. Sternoptychidae produce this light with organs called photophores, of which they have between 3 and 7 - usually 6 - on the branchiostegal membrane along the lower edge of the chest and belly.
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Various predaceous organisms are capable of coexisting with R. dominica, such as mites, bugs, and parasitoids that are also found infesting stored grain. Two hemipterans, found in the family Anthocoridae, four mites from the families Acarophenacidae, Pediculoidae, and Cheyletidae have all found to attack R. dominica within the storage, including five parasitoids from the families Bethylidae and Pteromalidae. All of these predators attacked the eggs or larval stage rather than the adult or pupal stage. Mortality of R. dominica can also occur because of nematodes, fungi, protozoans and bacteria, acting as predators, while harming the larval and adult stages.
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Most oligochaetes are detritus feeders, although some genera are predaceous, such as Agriodrilus and Phagodrilus. The digestive tract is essentially a tube running the length of the body, but has a powerful muscular pharynx immediately behind the mouth cavity. In many species, the pharynx simply helps the worm suck in food, but in many aquatic species, it can be turned inside out and placed over food like a suction cup before being pulled back in. The remainder of the digestive tract may include a crop for storage of food, and a gizzard for grinding it up, although these are not present in all species.
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Anteosaurs were evolved to prey on particularly large animals and were among the most highly predaceous of all synapsids (Sennikov, 1996), potential prey included the bull-sized armored pareiasaurs (Lee, 1997) and enormous tapinocephalid dinocephalians (Rubidge, 1995). The large anteosaurs were efficient predators, more specialized than earlier and more primitive biarmosuchid and eotitanosuchid carnivorous therapsids, as the temporal opening behind the eye socket was larger, indicating a greater muscle mass available for closing the lower jaw. Large pterygoid flanges indicate a well- developed KI system in anteosaurs, and increased vertical alignment of the temporalis muscles suggests an expanded SP component of the bite cycle.
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Metamorph stomach contents have included: owl flies, flies, springtails, spider mites, and spiders. There appears to be an ontogenetic shift from eating mostly spider mites (metamorphs), to eating a mix of spider mites, spiders, and chalcid wasps (2 months post-metamorphosis), to eating mostly hymenopterans, mostly ants (juveniles), to eating 80% hymenopterans, consisting of bees and wasps (adults). Tadpoles are grazers on detritus and algae, however it remains unclear whether they ingest those items, bacteria, rotifers, or something else. Tadpoles are also known to opportunistically scavenge conspecific tadpoles, Sierra chorus frog tadpoles, Belding's ground squirrels, and predaceous diving beetle larvae, as well as graze on lodgepole pine pollen grains.
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Allograpta is a very large and diverse genus of hoverflies present throughout the world except most of the palearctic region. The adults are brightly coloured flower pollinators and most larvae have a predatory feeding mode involving soft-bodied sternorrhynchans. Certain species have diverged from this and their larvae have been found to be leaf-miners, stem-borers or pollen-feeders.: K. Nishida, Rotheray, G., F. Thompson, C.. First non- predaceous syrphinae flower fly (Diptera: Syrphidae): A new leaf-mining Allograpta from Costa Rica Allograpta is currently being studied using both molecular and morphological methods to produce a robust phylogeny of the genus and its related genera.
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Life restoration, reconstructed skull, and skull AM 25430 of M. ferox Some writers suggest M. ferox could grow to the size of a black bear,Allaby, "Mustelidae" whilst others suggest a less exceptional mass of , compared to the wolverine of . Ekorus ekakeran, a comparable mustelid of the same period found in Africa, is estimated to have been around . Matthew described it as having short stout legs, with short feet and long non-retractible claws, similar to a modern wolverine but about twice the size, and noted that "the teeth indicate an animal fully as predaceous as the wolverine, but the skeleton points to more fossorial habits".Quoted in Gratacap, p.
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All species have small eyes reduced to a few ommatidia, an 11-segmented antenna with an ill-defined 3-segmented club, papal formula 2-2, and a masticatory border largely edentate with two apical teeth. The small eyes, edentate mandibles, and close similarity among the workers of all three Tyrannomyrmex species strongly suggest that they may also be similar ecologically, and that they are probably subterranean and predaceous. While the three known worker specimens have been taken in leaf litter samples, the rarity of collections suggests that Tyrannomyrmex species may both nest and forage in the deeper soil horizons, and that foragers may only occasionally enter the leaf litter layers closer to the surface.
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Reconstruction of C.obscura Chresmoda are large enigmatic insects with very long specialized legs, probably adapted for skating on the water surface similar to pond skaters. They can reach a body length of about , with a forewing length of about . These Polyneoptera of uncertain position have been considered aquatic and living on the water surface, probably predaceous on nektonic small animals.A. G. Ponomarenko Fossil insects from the Tithonian «Solnhofener Plattenkalke» in the Museum of Natural History, Vienna They lived during the Cretaceous of Brazil, China, Lebanon, Spain, United Kingdom, Mongolia and Myanmar, as well as in the Late Jurassic of Germany, from 150.8 to 94.3 Ma from the Tithonian to the Cenomanian ages.
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A Sceliages beetle transporting a millipede carcass Millipedes are preyed on by a wide range of animals, including various reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, and insects. Mammalian predators such as coatis and meerkats roll captured millipedes on the ground to deplete and rub off their defensive secretions before consuming their prey, and certain poison dart frogs are believed to incorporate the toxic compounds of millipedes into their own defences. Several invertebrates have specialised behaviours or structures to feed on millipedes, including larval glowworm beetles, Probolomyrmex ants, chlamydephorid slugs, and predaceous dung beetles of the genera Sceliages and Deltochilum. A large subfamily of assassin bugs, the Ectrichodiinae with over 600 species, has specialized in preying upon millipedes.
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The appointment of Timberlake in the Department of Biological Control in 1924 was motivated by his extensive knowledge of the taxonomy of parasitic Hymenoptera and of predaceous ladybird beetles, groups of importance in biological control of pest insects. However, by the late 1920s and thereafter, he focused almost entirely upon the taxonomy of native bees, especially the genus Perdita. There are over 800 species of Perdita, most described by Timberlake, but also by T.D.A. Cockerell. They are almost all specialist pollinators (oligoleges) of many species of plants, especially in the Sonoran desert, where Timberlake carried out extensive collecting for decades. He described and named about 800 species of bees in total over his career, and several other species in other insect groups.
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Grinnell argued that, "As a rule, predaceous animals should be left unmolested and allowed to retain their primitive relation to the rest of the fauna ... as their number is already kept within proper limits by the available food supply, nothing is to be gained by reducing it still further." But trapping of rare animals for scientific study was an exception, he added "A justifiable exception may be made when specimens are required for scientific purposes by authorized representatives of public institutions, and it should be remarked in this connection that without a scientific investigation of the animal life in the parks, and an extensive collection of specimens, no thorough understanding of the conditions or of the practical problems they involve is possible." A wolverine. In July 1915, during the Yosemite survey, Charles Lewis Camp trapped two wolverines, a male and female.
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Life restoration of Aerosaurus wellesi A. wellesi had a humerus and femur in similar length to the lower legs, which allowed it to have a high posture and long strides for a predaceous or carnivorous type of life. The ossified feet and exceedingly long tail of Aerosaurus suggests an agile terrestrial carnivore ‘Pelycosaurs’ represent first group to dominate the terrestrial fauna and achieve large body size at a time where the supercontinent Pangea existed. The discovery of Pyozia mesenensis from the Middle Permian suggests there was an adaptation to ecological and climate changes that occurs into the late Paleozoic. Varanopid tended to be small to medium-sized basal 'pelycosaurs' that were carnivores and coexisted with herbivory animals in this landscape. The P. mesenensis discovery is just an increasing trend of a “mammalness” trait during the introduction of herbivory prey that appears during the Permian.
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