Biology:Dorcatominae

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Short description: Subfamily of beetles

Dorcatominae
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Caenocara
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Ptinidae
Subfamily: Dorcatominae
C. G. Thomson, 1859
Protheca hispida

Dorcatominae is a subfamily of death-watch and spider beetles in the family Ptinidae. There are about 16 genera and at least 190 described species in Dorcatominae.[1][2][3][4][5]

The subfamily Dorcatominae, along with Anobiinae and several others, were formerly considered members of the family Anobiidae, but the family name has since been changed to Ptinidae.[5][3][4][2]

Genera

These 16 genera belong to the subfamily Dorcatominae:

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[6] g = GBIF,[7] b = Bugguide.net[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Dorcatominae Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=678618. Retrieved 2018-08-29. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Dorcatominae Subfamily Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/31415. Retrieved 2018-08-29. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Bell, Karen Leanne; Philips, T. Keith (2011). "Molecular systematics and evolution of the Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) and related families". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Linnean Society of London) 165: 88–108. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00792.x. https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-pdf/165/1/88/16698390/j.1096-3642.2011.00792.x.pdf. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Apollo Books. 2007. ISBN 978-87-88757-67-5. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A. et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (Pensoft Publishers) (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMID 21594053. 
  6. "Catalogue of Life". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/. Retrieved 2018-08-29. 
  7. "GBIF". https://www.gbif.org/. Retrieved 2018-08-29. 

Further reading

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1382414 entry