Editing Adephaga (section)

{{Short description|Suborder of beetles}}
{{more citations needed|date=March 2016}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Adephaga
| image = Cybister limbatus (Fabricius, 1775) male (8160965402).png
| image_caption = ''[[Cybister]] limbatus'', a member of the family [[Dytiscidae]] (predaceous diving beetle)
| image2 = Catascopus facialis (Wiedemann, 1819).png
| image2_caption = ''[[Catascopus]] facialis'' a member of the family [[Carabidae]] (ground beetles)
| fossil_range = [[Changhsingian]]/[[Induan]]&ndash;[[Holocene]], {{Fossil range|251.2|0|earliest=254.14|ref=<ref name="Wang2016">{{cite journal | last1 = Wang | first1 = Yan-hui | last2 = Engel | first2 = Michael S. | last3 = Rafael | first3 = José A. | last4 = Wu | first4 = Hao-yang | last5 = Rédei | first5 = Dávid | last6 = Xie | first6 = Qiang | last7 = Wang | first7 = Gang | last8 = Liu | first8 = Xiao-guang | last9 = Bu | first9 = Wen-jun | date = 2016 | title = Fossil record of stem groups employed in evaluating the chronogram of insects (Arthropoda: Hexapoda) | journal = [[Scientific Reports]] | volume = 6 | page = 38939 | doi = 10.1038/srep38939 | pmid=27958352 | pmc=5154178| bibcode = 2016NatSR...638939W }}</ref>}}
| taxon = Adephaga
| authority = [[Johann Rudolph Schellenberg|Schellenberg]], 1806
| subdivision_ranks = Families
| subdivision = *[[Gyrinidae]] (whirligig beetles)
*Geadephaga
**[[Carabidae]] (ground beetles)
**[[Cicindelidae]] (tiger beetles)
**[[Trachypachidae]]
*†[[Triaplidae]]
*[[Haliplidae]]
*Dytiscoidea
**[[Amphizoidae]]
**[[Aspidytidae]]
**[[Dytiscidae]]  (diving beetles)
**[[Hygrobiidae]]
**[[Meruidae]]
**[[Noteridae]]
**†[[Coptoclavidae]]
**†[[Parahygrobiidae]]
**†[[Liadytidae]]
**†[[Colymbothetidae]]
}}
[[File:76-Indian-Insect-Life - Harold Maxwell-Lefroy - Adephaga.jpg|thumb|Image by [[Harold Maxwell-Lefroy]] - Adephaga]]
The '''Adephaga''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] ἀδηφάγος, ''adephagos'', "gluttonous") are a suborder of [[beetles]], and with more than 40,000 recorded species in 10 families, the second-largest of the four beetle suborders. Members of this suborder are collectively known as '''adephagans'''. The largest family is [[Ground beetle|Carabidae]] (ground beetles) which comprises most of the suborder with over 40,000 species. Adephaga also includes a variety of aquatic beetles, such as [[predaceous diving beetle]]s and [[whirligig beetle]]s.