Erotinae Explained

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]}

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

• 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 .
• 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: Erotinae Subfamily Information. BugGuide.net. 2018-02-04.
2. Web site: Erotinae Report. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 2018-02-04.