The phylogeny of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) is becoming increasingly better known. However, there are still some prominent areas of poor or ambiguous support and disagreement about certain groupings. Although monophyly of Dytiscinae is well-supported, conclusions from recent analyses about groupings of the tribes and genera have been in conflict. In this analysis, we seek to provide the most comprehensive cladistic analysis to date of the subfamily using an extensive sampling of taxa and a combination of characters from adult and larval morphology and several nuclear protein coding and mitochondrial genes. A revised classification is presented for the tribes and genera.
Keywords: Cladistics, phylogeny
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