title: Elmidae Curtis, 1830 (Coleoptera, Polyphaga, Byrrhoidea) of the Neotropical region.
abstract: A bibliography of significant taxonomic papers on Elmidae (Coleoptera, Polyphaga, Byrrhoidea), and a checklist of valid species and subspecies and their geographic distributions are provided. Forty-seven genera and 430 valid species are included. Maps show the geographic distribution of the genera by country.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática. FFCLRP, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil; Email: m_ottoboni@yahoo.com.br.
authors.forename: Melissa Ottoboni
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Segura
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Maria Ines Da Silva
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Dos Passos
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática. FFCLRP, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Alaíde Aparecida
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Fonseca-Gessner
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Claudio Gilberto
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Froehlich
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology; D003710:Demography; D013045:Species Specificity