Biology:Lycinae

Short description: Subfamily of beetles

Lycinae
Caenia dimidiata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Superfamily:	Elateroidea
Family:	Lycidae
Subfamily:	Lycinae Laporte, 1836

Lycinae is a subfamily of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae.

Lycus loripes

Tribes and Genera

BioLib includes 11 tribes:

Calochromini

Auth.: Lacordaire, 1857 - sometimes placed as subfamily Calochrominae

1. Calochromus Guérin-Ménéville, 1833
2. Caloptognatha Green, 1954
3. Dumbrellia Lea, 1909
4. Lucaina Dugès, 1879
5. Lygistopterus Mulsant, 1838
6. Macrolygistopterus Pic, 1929

Calopterini

Auth.: Green, 1949; poss. incomplete genera:

subtribe Acroleptina Bocáková, 2005

• Acroleptus Bourgeois, 1886
• Aporrhipis Pascoe, 1887
• Paracroleptus costae (Ferreira, 2015)

subtribe Calopterina Green, 1949

1. Calopteron Laporte, 1838

subtribe not determined

1. Caenia Newman, 1838
2. Ceratopriomorphus Pic, 1922
3. Emplectus Erichson, 1847
4. Idiopteron Bourgeois, 1905
5. Leptoceletes Green, 1952
6. Metapteron Bourgeois, 1905
7. Xenolycus Ferreira & Silveira, 2020

Conderini

Auth.: Bocak & Bocakova, 1990

1. Conderis Waterhouse, 1879
2. Xylobanellus Kleine, 1930

Dihammatini

Auth.: Bocák & Bocáková, 2008

1. Dihammatus Waterhouse 1879

Eurrhacini

Auth.: Bocakova, 2005

1. Cladocalon Nascimento & Bocakova, 2022
2. Currhaeus Nascimento, Bressan & Bocakova, 2020

Lycini

Auth.: Laporte de Castelnau, 1836; selected genera:

• Lopholycus Bourgeois, 1883
• Lyconotus Green, 1949
• Lycus Fabricius, 1787

Lyponiini

Auth.: Bocak & Bocakova, 1990

1. Lyponia Waterhouse, 1878

Macrolycini

Auth.: Kleine, 1929

1. Calcaeron Kazantsev, 2004
2. Cerceros Kraatz, 1879
3. Macrolycus Waterhouse, 1878

Melanerotini

Auth.: Kazantsev, 2010

1. Melaneros Fairmaire, 1879
2. Polyneros Kazantsev, 2009

Metriorrhynchini

Auth.: Kleine, 1926

subtribe Hemiconderinina Bocák & Bocáková, 1990

• Hemiconderis Kleine, 1926 (poss. misspelling: Hemiconderidis)

subtribe Metriorrhynchina Kleine, 1926

1. Cautires Waterhouse, 1879
2. Metriorrhynchus Gemminger & Harold, 1869
3. Xylobanus Waterhouse, 1879

subtribe Trichalina Kleine, 1929

1. Trichalus Waterhouse, 1877

unplaced genera

1. Achras Waterhouse, 1879
2. Broxylus Waterhouse, 1879
3. Cladophorus Guérin-Méneville, 1830
4. Enylus Waterhouse, 1879
5. Flabellotrichalus Pic, 1921
6. Mangkutanus Kubecek, Dvorak & Bocak, 2011
7. Porrostoma Laporte, 1838
8. Procautires Kleine, 1925
9. Stadenus Waterhouse, 1879
10. Synchonnus Waterhouse, 1879
11. Wakarumbia Bocak, 1999

Platerodini

Auth.: Kleine, 1929

1. Lyponia Waterhouse, 1878
2. Melaneros Fairmaire, 1877
3. Plateros Bourgeois, 1879
4. Teroplas Gorham, 1884

Thonalmini

Auth.: Kleine, 1933

1. Thonalmus Bourgeois, 1883

Further reading

• Miller, Richard S. (2002). "Family 59: Lycidae Laporte, 1836". American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 174–178. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0. 
• Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. 2007. ISBN 978-8788757675. 
• LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q11987079 entry