Prosternini

Prosternini
Anostirus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Family:	Elateridae
Subfamily:	Dendrometrinae
Tribe:	Prosternini Gistel, 1856

Prosternini is a tribe of click beetles in the family Elateridae. There are at least 20 genera and 90 described species in North America, and others elsewhere. ^{[1] [2]}

Sylvanelater cylindriformis

North American genera

• Actenicerus Kiesenwetter, 1858 ^{g b}
• Anostirus C.G.Thomson, 1859 ^{g b}
• Anthracopteryx Horn, 1891 ^b
• Beckerus Johnson in Majka & Johnson, 2008 ^{g b}
• Corymbitodes Buysson, 1904 ^{g b}
• Ctenicera Latreille, 1829 ^{i c g b}
• Eanus Leconte, 1861 ^{g b}
• Hadromorphus Motschoulsky, 1859 ^{g b}
• Hypoganus Kiesenwetter, 1858 ^{g b}
• Liotrichus Kiesenwetter, 1858 ^{g b}
• Metanomus Buysson, 1887 ^{g b}
• Neopristilophus Buysson, 1894 ^{g b}
• Nitidolimonius Johnson in Majka & Johnson, 2008 ^{g b}
• Oxygonus LeConte ^{g b}
• Paractenicera Johnson in Majka & Johnson, 2008 ^{g b}
• Prosternon Latreille, 1834 ^{g b}
• Pseudanostirus Dolin, 1964 ^{g b}
• Selatosomus Stephens, 1830 ^{g b}
• Setasomus Gurjeva, 1985 ^{g b}
• Sylvanelater Johnson in Majka & Johnson, 2008 ^{g b}

Data sources: i = ITIS, ^[3] c = Catalogue of Life, ^[4] g = GBIF, ^[5] b = Bugguide.net ^[1]

References

1. "Prosternini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
2. "Prosternini Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
3. "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System" . Retrieved 2018-04-09.
4. "Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2018-04-09.
5. "GBIF" . Retrieved 2018-04-09.

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 (88). Pensoft Publishers: 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. Vol. 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. Vol. 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 .
• 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 Prosternini at Wikimedia Commons