Melasinae

Melasinae
Epiphanis cornutus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Eucnemidae
Subfamily:	Melasinae Fleming, 1821

Melasinae is a subfamily of false click beetles in the family Eucnemidae. There are about 15 genera and at least 30 described species in Melasinae. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Isorhipis obliqua

Genera

Xylophilus sp.

These 15 genera belong to the subfamily Melasinae:

• Adelothyreus Horn, 1890 ^{g b}
• Arrhipis Bonvouloir, 1871 ^{g b}
• Dirrhagofarsus Fleutiaux, 1935 ^{g b}
• Entomophthalmus Bonvouloir, 1871 ^{g b}
• Epiphanis Eschscholtz, 1829 ^{i c g b}
• Golbachia Cobos, 1955 ^b
• Hylis Des Gozis, 1886 ^{g b}
• Hylochares Latreille, 1834 ^{g b}
• Isorhipis Boisduval & Lacordaire, 1835 ^{g b}
• Melasis Olivier, 1790 ^{g b}
• Microrhagus Dejean, 1833 ^{g b}
• Protofarsus Muona, 2000 ^b
• Rhagomicrus Fleutiaux, 1902 ^{g b}
• Sarpedon Bonvouloir, 1871 ^{g b}
• Xylophilus Mannerheim, 1823 ^{i c g b}

Data sources: i = ITIS, ^[1] c = Catalogue of Life, ^[4] g = GBIF, ^[5] b = Bugguide.net ^[2]

References

1. "Melasinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
2. "Melasinae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
3. "Melasinae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
4. "Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2018-04-05.
5. "GBIF" . Retrieved 2018-04-05.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 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.
• 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. PMC   3088472 . 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.
• Lawrence, J.F.; Newton Jr., A.F. (1995). Pakaluk, James; Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam (eds.). 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.
• Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.8777 .
• Poole, Robert W.; Gentili, Patricia, eds. (1996). "A Check List of the Insects of North America: Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America. Entomological Information Services. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera: 41–820. ISBN   9781889002019.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Melasinae at Wikimedia Commons