Biology:Nitidulini

Short description: Tribe of beetles

Nitidulini
Nitidula bipunctata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Nitidulidae
Subfamily:	Nitidulinae
Tribe:	Nitidulini Latreille, 1802

Nitidulini is a tribe of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are about 10 genera and at least 20 described species in Nitidulini.

Stelidota geminata

Genera

These 10 genera belong to the tribe Nitidulini:

• Aethina Erichson, 1843 ^{i c g b}
• Amphotis Erichson, 1843 ^{i c g b}
• Lobiopa Erichson, 1843 ^{i c g b}
• Nitidula Fabricius, 1775 ^{i c g b}
• Omosita Erichson, 1843 ^{i c g b}
• Phenolia Erichson, 1843 ^{i c g b}
• Pocadius Erichson, 1843 ^{i c g b}
• Soronia Erichson, 1843 ^{i c g b}
• Stelidota Erichson, 1843 ^{i c g b}
• Thalycra Erichson, 1843 ^{i c g b}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0849309540. 
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18111#page/5/mode/1up. 
• 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. 
• Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38811. ISBN 0665070772. 
• Evans, Arthur V.; Hogue, James N. (2006). Field Guide to Beetles of California. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520246577. 
• Klimaszewski, Jan; Watt, J.Charles (1997). "Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification". Fauna of New Zealand 37. https://biotaxa.org/fnz/article/view/1797/. 
• Lawrence, J.F.; Newton Jr., A.F. (1995). Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. 2. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. pp. 779–1006. ISBN 83-85192-34-4. 
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732. 
• Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8777. 
• Lord, Nathan Patrick; Hartley, Christopher S.; Lawrence, John F.; McHugh, Joseph V. et al. (2010). "Phylogenetic analysis of the minute brown scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Latridiidae), and recognition of a new beetle family, Akalyptoischiidae fam. n. (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)". Systematic Entomology 35 (4): 753–763. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00532.x. ISSN 0307-6970. 
• Price, M.B.; Young, D.K. (2006). "An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)". Insecta Mundi 20: 69–84. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1108&context=insectamundi. 
• White, Richard E. (1998). A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q21214868 entry