Lycidae

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Lycidae
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Superfamily: Elateroidea
Family: Lycidae
Laporte, 1836
Subfamilies

The Lycidae are a family in the beetle order Coleoptera, members of which are commonly called net-winged beetles. These beetles are cosmopolitan, being found in Nearctic, Palearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, and Australian ecoregions. [1]

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Description

Beetles of this family are elongated and usually found on flowers or stems. Adult males are about 10–15 mm in length, while females are a bit larger. The adults of some species are nectarivores, while some may have short adult lives during which they may not feed at all. The head is triangular and the antennae are long, thick, and serrated. Most of them are brick-red in colour. They are protected from predators by being toxic. The predaceous larvae grow under bark or in leaf litter.

Selected genera

These following genera belong to the family Lycidae:

Data sources: i=ITIS, [3] c=Catalogue of Life, [4] g=GBIF, [5] b=Bugguide.net [6]

Extinct genera

Burmolycus Bocak et al. 2019 Burmese amber, Cenomanian

Cretolycus Tihelka et al. 2019 Burmese amber, Cenomanian

Electropteron Kazantsev 2012 Dominican amber, Miocene

Miocaenia Wickham 1914 Florissant Formation, Eocene

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elateroidea</span> Superfamily of beetles

The Elateroidea are a large superfamily of beetles. It contains the familiar click beetles, fireflies, and soldier beetles and their relatives. It consists of about 25,000 species.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zopheridae</span> Family of beetles

Zopheridae is a family of beetles belonging to Tenebrionoidea. It has grown considerably in recent years as the members of two other families have been included within its circumscription; these former families are the Monommatidae and the Colydiidae, which are now both included in the Zopheridae as subfamilies or even as tribe of subfamily Zopherinae. Some authors accept up to six subfamilies here, while others merge all except the Colydiinae into the Zopherinae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ripiphoridae</span> Family of beetles

Ripiphoridae is a cosmopolitan family of some 450 described species of beetles sometimes called "wedge-shaped beetles". Ripiphoridae are unusual among beetle families in that many species are hypermetamorphic parasitoids, an attribute that they share with the Meloidae. Members of the family differ in their choice of hosts, but most attack various species of bees or wasps, while some others attack cockroaches or beetles. Many species of Ripiphoridae have abbreviated elytra, and flabellate or pectinate antennae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ototretinae</span> Subfamily of beetles

The Ototretinae are a small subfamily in the firefly family (Lampyridae). They are close to the Luciolinae in some respects, but do not glow or flash. Rather, they attract their partners with pheromones like many relatives of the firefly family. They are found in Eurasia and North America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Melyridae</span> Family of beetles

Melyridae are a family of beetles of the superfamily Cleroidea.

<i>Cautires</i> Genus of beetles

Cautires is a genus of beetles in the family Lycidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cantharinae</span> Subfamily of beetles

Cantharinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Cantharidae. There are at least 200 described species in Cantharinae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cantharini</span> Tribe of beetles

Cantharini is a tribe of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae. There are more than 40 genera and over 500 described species in Cantharini.

<i>Plateros</i> Genus of beetles

Plateros is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae and the tribe Platerodini. Species are recorded from the Americas, Africa and Asia, including Sri Lanka, Indochina, Korea and Japan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Erotinae</span> Subfamily of beetles

Erotinae is a subfamily of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae. There are about 10 genera and 19 described species in Erotinae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Agrypninae</span> Subfamily of beetles

Agrypninae is a subfamily of click beetles in the family Elateridae.

<i>Calopteron discrepans</i> Species of beetle

Calopteron discrepans, the banded net-winged beetle, is a species of net-winged beetle in the family Lycidae. It is found in North America.

<i>Calopteron</i> Genus of beetles

Calopteron is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lycinae</span> Subfamily of beetles

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

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Calochrominae</span> Subfamily of beetles

Calochrominae is a subfamily of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae. There are at least 4 genera and more than 30 described species in Calochrominae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brentinae</span> Subfamily of beetles

Brentinae is a subfamily of primitive weevils in the family of beetles known as Brentidae. There are at least 90 genera and 520 described species in Brentinae.

<i>Porrostoma</i> Genus of beetles

Porrostoma is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae, occurring in Australia and New Zealand.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lycini</span> Tribe of beetles

The Lycini is a species-rich beetle tribe belonging to the subfamily Lycinae

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leptolycinae</span> Subfamily of beetles

Leptolycinae is a subfamily of the Lycidae or "net-winged beetles" erected by Leng and Mutchler in 1922. This subfamily includes notable genera such as Platerodrilus, which are sometimes called "trilobite beetles".

References

  1. Lawrence, J.F., Hastings, A.M., Dallwitz, M.J., Paine, T.A., and Zurcher, E.J. 2000 onwards. Elateriformia (Coleoptera): descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval for families and subfamilies. Version: 9 October 2005
  2. Kubecek, Vaclav; Bray, Timothy C.; Bocak, Ladislav (2015). "Molecular phylogeny of Metanoeina net-winged beetles identifies Ochinoeus, a new genus from China and Laos (Coleoptera: Lycidae)". Zootaxa. 3955 (1): 113–122. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3955.1.6. PMID   25947840.
  3. "Lycidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  4. "Browse Lycidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  5. "Lycidae". GBIF. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  6. "Lycidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 22 April 2018.