Erotinae

Erotinae is a subfamily of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae. There are about 10 genera and 19 described species in Erotinae.[1][2]

Punicealis munda

Erotinae
Dictyoptera aurora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Lycidae
Subfamily: Erotinae
LeConte, 1881

Genera
  • Adoceta Bourgeois, 1882
  • Benibotarus Kono, 1932
  • Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829
  • Eropterus Green, 1951
  • Eros Newman, 1838
  • Erotides Waterhouse, 1879
  • Greenarus
  • Lopheros Leconte, 1881
  • Platycis Thomson, 1864
  • Punicealis Kazantsev, 1990

References
  1. "Erotinae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
  2. "Erotinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 4 February 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.
  • Miller, Richard S. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 59. Lycidae Laporte 1836". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 174–178.

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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