Lycinae Explained

Lycinae is a subfamily of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae.

Tribes and Genera

BioLib^[1] includes 11 tribes:

Calochromini

Auth.: Lacordaire, 1857 - sometimes placed as subfamily Calochrominae

1. Calochromus Guérin-Ménéville, 1833
2. Caloptognatha Green, 1954
3. Dumbrellia Lea, 1909
4. Lucaina Dugès, 1879
5. Lygistopterus Mulsant, 1838
6. Macrolygistopterus Pic, 1929

Calopterini

Auth.: Green, 1949; poss. incomplete genera:

subtribe Acroleptina Bocáková, 2005

• Acroleptus Bourgeois, 1886
• Aporrhipis Pascoe, 1887
• Paracroleptus costae (Ferreira, 2015)

subtribe Calopterina Green, 1949

1. Calopteron Laporte, 1838

subtribe not determined:

1. Caenia Newman, 1838
2. Ceratopriomorphus Pic, 1922
3. Emplectus Erichson, 1847
4. Idiopteron Bourgeois, 1905
5. Leptoceletes Green, 1952
6. Metapteron Bourgeois, 1905
7. Xenolycus Ferreira & Silveira, 2020

Conderini

Auth.: Bocak & Bocakova, 1990

1. Conderis Waterhouse, 1879
2. Xylobanellus Kleine, 1930

Dihammatini

Auth.: Bocák & Bocáková, 2008

1. Dihammatus Waterhouse 1879

Eurrhacini

Auth.: Bocakova, 2005

1. Cladocalon Nascimento & Bocakova, 2022
2. Currhaeus Nascimento, Bressan & Bocakova, 2020

Lycini

Auth.: Laporte de Castelnau, 1836; selected genera:

• Lopholycus Bourgeois, 1883
• Lyconotus Green, 1949
• Lycus Fabricius, 1787

Lyponiini

Auth.: Bocak & Bocakova, 1990

1. Lyponia Waterhouse, 1878

Macrolycini

Auth.: Kleine, 1929

1. Calcaeron Kazantsev, 2004
2. Cerceros Kraatz, 1879
3. Macrolycus Waterhouse, 1878

Melanerotini

Auth.: Kazantsev, 2010

1. Melaneros Fairmaire, 1879
2. Polyneros Kazantsev, 2009

Metriorrhynchini

Auth.: Kleine, 1926

subtribe Hemiconderinina Bocák & Bocáková, 1990

• Hemiconderis Kleine, 1926 (poss. misspelling: Hemiconderidis)^[2]

subtribe Metriorrhynchina Kleine, 1926

1. Cautires Waterhouse, 1879
2. Metriorrhynchus Gemminger & Harold, 1869
3. Xylobanus Waterhouse, 1879

subtribe Trichalina Kleine, 1929

1. Trichalus Waterhouse, 1877

unplaced genera

1. Achras Waterhouse, 1879
2. Broxylus Waterhouse, 1879
3. Cladophorus Guérin-Méneville, 1830
4. Enylus Waterhouse, 1879
5. Flabellotrichalus Pic, 1921
6. Mangkutanus Kubecek, Dvorak & Bocak, 2011
7. Porrostoma Laporte, 1838
8. Procautires Kleine, 1925
9. Stadenus Waterhouse, 1879
10. Synchonnus Waterhouse, 1879
11. Wakarumbia Bocak, 1999

Platerodini

Auth.: Kleine, 1929

1. Lyponia Waterhouse, 1878
2. Melaneros Fairmaire, 1877
3. Plateros Bourgeois, 1879
4. Teroplas Gorham, 1884

Thonalmini

Auth.: Kleine, 1933

1. Thonalmus Bourgeois, 1883

Further reading

• Book: American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. 2002. Miller . Richard S.. Arnett . Ross H. Jr.. Thomas . Michael C.. Skelley . Paul E.. Frank . J. Howard. CRC Press. Family 59: Lycidae Laporte, 1836. 174–178. 978-0-8493-0954-0.
• 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. https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id9548/ BioLib.cz
2. Bouchard P, et al. (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys (88) – Apr 2011.