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Meru (genus)
Meruidae is a recently described family of aquatic beetles in the suborder Adephaga,〔Steiner, Warren. 2005. Meruidae. Version 1 January 2005 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Meruidae/29297/2005.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/〕 with only one genus and species, ''Meru phyllisae''. This beetle species was first found in the early 1980s.〔Paul J. Spangler, Warren E. Steiner JR (2005) A new aquatic beetle family, Meruidae, from Venezuela (Coleoptera: Adephaga)
Systematic Entomology 30 (3), 339–357〕 At 0.8 mm, it is one of the smallest adephagan beetles in the world. A recent survey of aquatic beetles of Venezuela prove that ''Meru'' is most common during the wet season, when larger areas of granitic rock surface are covered with water film, which the adult beetles as well as the larvae inhabit.
==Etymology==
The name Meruidae comes from the local Pemon people word for waterfall, ''meru''. The beetle was given this name because it can being only found in cascading water.〔http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/icb344/abstracts/Meruidae.htm〕
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