| Common Name |
Crawling Water Beetle |
| Phylum |
Arthropoda |
| Class |
Insecta |
| Order |
Coleoptera |
| Family |
Haliplidae |
| Description |
2-6mm. Small, oval, and convex body. Their hind legs have hairs. Their antennae are uniformly slender without clubs. Ventrally, they have plates that cover about half of their hind legs. For more photos, refer to our online gallery: tinyurl.com/tpeo3ym |
| Habitat |
Primarily lentic-littoral but also lotic-depositional. Commonly found around dense growths of aquatic vegetation in shallow water bodies. Associated frequently with filamentous algae, macroalgae and aquatic vascular plants. |
| Feeding Information |
Larvae and adult Haliplidae primarily feed on filamentous or macroalgae by biting, chewing or piercing cells and sucking juices. |
| Water Quality Tolerance |
Somewhat tolerant. |
| References |
Voshell & Wright. 2002. |
