Languriini Explained

Languriini is a tribe of beetles, known as lizard beetles, in the family Erotylidae, subfamily Languriinae. Lizard beetles are commonly found on leaves or flowers, and their larvae bore into plant stems. Adults are generally long and parallel-sided with a red thorax.^[1] There are about 5 genera and at least 20 described species in Languriini.

ITIS Taxonomic note:

• Authorship corrected to Hope 1840, per Bouchard et al., (2011:357), 'family-group name previously attributed to Crotch (1873c) by Pakaluk et al. (1994) and subsequent authors'.

Genera

These five genera belong to the tribe Languriini:

• Acropteroxys Gorham, 1887

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• Dasydactylus Gorham, 1887

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• Languria Latreille, 1802

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• Langurites Motschulsky, 1860

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• Neoloberolus Leschen, 2003

^{i c g}Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Book: Erotylidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) phylogey and review. 2003. Leschen . Richard A. B.. . Manaaki Whenua Press. Fauna of New Zealand. 47. 978-0-478-09350-6. 0111-5383.
• Book: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. 2007. Lobl . I.. Smetana . A.. Apollo Books. 978-8788757675.
• Book: Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. 1861. LeConte . J. L.. Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. 136. 978-0665100550. 10.5962/bhl.title.38459.

Notes and References

1. Borror, Donald J. and Richard E. White. A Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 1970. p. 175