Carpophilinae Explained

Carpophilinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are at least 70 described species in Carpophilinae.^{[1] [2]}

Genera

• Amphicrossus Erichson, 1843
• Aphenolia Reitter, 1884
• Carpophilus Stephens, 1830
• Caplothorax Kirejtshuk, 1997^[3]
• Epuraea Erichson, 1843
• Nitops Murray, 1864
• Urophorus Murray, 1864

References

• Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys, vol. 88, 1–972.
• Habeck, Dale H. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 77. Nitidulidae Latreille 1802". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 311–315.
• 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.

Further reading

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Carpophilinae
• 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 .
• 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Carpophilinae Subfamily Information. BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. 2018-01-25.
2. Web site: Carpophilinae Report. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 2018-01-25.
3. Gareth S. Powell. Andrew R. Cline. Alexandra G. Duffy. Jennifer M. Zaspel. Phylogeny and reclassification of Carpophilinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), with insights into the origins of anthophily. 2020. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 189. 4. 1359–1369. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa001.