two commercially available edible aquatic insects (Coleoptera) and their worldwide updated list

What is it about?

this study analyses some mineral (Ca, Fe, Cu, Zn, Se, Co, Cr, As, and Pb) contents of two selected commercialized aquatic edible beetles, Dytiscus marginalis and Cybister tripunctatus (Dytiscidae), via inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICPMS) and reviews the contemporary list of aquatic edible beetles of the world, summarizing the nutritional characteristics of water beetles with a synthesis of the risks and benefits of edible aquatic beetles in recent literature

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Why is it important?

in general, beetles are good sources of elements. In addition, with the present study, knowledge gaps in aquatic beetle taxonomy were updated, and some misspelled taxonomic names were corrected and given.