Abraeinae
Acritus nigricornis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
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.

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