Abraeinae

Abraeinae
Acritus nigricornis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Histeridae
Subfamily:	Abraeinae MacLeay, 1819

Abraeinae is a subfamily of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are at least 20 genera and at least 440 described species in Abraeinae. ^{[1] [2]}

Acritus nigricornis

Many of the groups are tiny, with adults less than 2 mm in length. These beetles are diverse in form with a small oval specie that separates them from all the other histerids except for the Bacaniini. The Abraeinae lacks a separate basal piece of the aedeagus.

Genera

• Abaeletes Cooman, 1940
• Abraeus Leach, 1817
• Acritodes Cooman, 1935
• Acritomorphus Wenzel, 1944
• Acritus J. L. LeConte, 1853
• Aeletes Horn, 1873
• Aeletodes Gomy, 1977
• Anophtaeletes Olexa, 1976
• Arizonacritus Gomy & Warner, 2013
• Chaetabraeus Portevin, 1929
• Eubrachium Wollaston, 1862
• Halacritus Schmidt, 1893
• Iberacritus Yélamos, 1994
• Mascarenium Gomy, 1978
• Phloeolister Bickhardt, 1916
• Plegaderus Erichson, 1834
• Pleuroleptus G. Müller, 1937
• Spelaeabraeus Moro, 1957
• Spelaeacritus Jeannel, 1934
• Teretriosoma Horn, 1873
• Teretrius Erichson, 1834
• Therondus Gomy, 1974
• Trypolister Bickhardt, 1916
• Xiphonotus Lacordaire, 1854

References

1. "Abraeinae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
2. "Abraeinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 January 2018.

• Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (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, vol. 2, 779–1006.
• Mazur, Slawomir (1997). "A world catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea)". Genus, International Journal of Invertebrate Taxonomy (Supplement), 373.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN   978-0-8493-0954-0.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

External links

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Abraeinae

Media related to Abraeinae at Wikimedia Commons