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Gyrinidae

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Gyrinidae

Don't let the paired tarsal claws and the filaments on the abdominal segments make you think Megaloptera; it is in fact a whirligig beetle and the adults are familiar surface swimmers. On the 10th abdominal segment, it has 2 pairs of hooks . Adults stand out from others in that they appear to have 2 pairs of eyes. They don't, actually- it's just that its eyes are divided on the exterior by its exoskeleton.

Images of the whirligig beetle, thesurface swimmers, the 2 pairs of hooks and the eyes that are divided.

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