Suborder Adephaga - the Ground and Water Beetles

Family Rhysodidae - Wrinkled Bark Beetles -- (N2)

Family Gyrinidae - Whirligig Beetles -- (*2)

Family Haliplidae - Crawling Water Beetles -- (*2)

Family Trachypachidae - False Ground Beetles -- (N)

Family Noteridae - Burrowing Water Beetles -- (*1)

Family Amphizoidae - Trout-Stream Beetles -- (N)

Family Carabidae - Ground Beetles -- (2)

Subfamily Carabinae

Tribe Carabini

Genus Calosoma

Genus Carabus

Subfamily Cicindelinae - Tiger Beetles

Tribe Cincindelini

Genus Cicindela

Big Sand Tiger Beetle

Common Shore Tiger

Purple Tiger Beetle

Scutellaris Lecontei Tiger

Sidewalk Tiger Beetle

Subfamily Harpalinae

Tribe Harpalini

Genus Harpalus

Tribe Lebiini

Genus Calleida

Genus Lebiini - Colorful Foliage Ground Beetles

Tribe Pterostichini - Woodland Ground Beetles

Genus Cyclotrachelus

Subfamily Omophroninae

Tribe Omophronini

Genus Omophron - Round Sand Beetles

Subfamily Scaritinae

Tribe Scaritini

Genus Scarites

Family Dytiscidae - Predacious Diving Beetles (2)

Genus Colymbetes

Genus Dytiscus

* - Beetle Families on this list with an askerisk (*) have not been documented at bugguide for wisconsin but are listed on the Wisconsin edu site.

N - Not found on Wisconsin Edu site or bugguide site.

1 - Found on http://insects.entomology.wisc.edu/Coleoptera/ but not in bugguide for wisconsin or border states.

2 - This Family or additional Genus have been found in bordering states and provences.

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