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- "Dytiscus " species are large water beetles with a robust, rounded shape and are usually around two inches long.
- In " Dytiscus marginalis " and other species the tarsus of the forelegs is modified in males to form a circular sucker.
- With them Dytiscus impales creatures that float by, " maybe a mosquito wriggler, " injects digestive acid into them and pumps their dissolved insides out.
- Two European aquatic beetles, " Dytiscus balsetensis " and " Hydroporus aveniovensis ", are pale yellowish-brown and with eyes greatly atrophied and unpigmented.
- In 1968, with no sailing experience, he competed in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, aboard a 30 ft yacht called " Dytiscus " retiring just past the Cape of Good Hope.
- "` When Dytiscus is done, the wriggler is just an empty bag of skin drifting off in the water .'Kyle grinned at Val in triumph . ` That's a horror show . "'
- When she contemplates the fifth hole of Oscar's course, based on " Invasion of the Body Snatchers, " she describes a water beetle, Dytiscus, whose larval form is equipped with hollow sickle-shaped mandibles " sharp as razors ."