Prometopinae Explained

Prometopinae is a subfamily of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are about eight genera in Prometopinae, including one North American genus, Prometopia.

Further reading

• Book: Arnett . R.H. Jr.. Thomas . M. C.. Skelley . P. E.. Frank . J. H.. 2002. American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 978-0849309540.
• Book: Blatchley . W.S.. 1910. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub..
• Bouchard . Patrice. Bousquet . Yves. Davies . Anthony E.. Alonso-Zarazaga . Miguel A.. Lawrence . John F.. 4. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys. Pensoft Publishers. 88. 1–972. 1313-2989. 10.3897/zookeys.88.807. 21594053. 3088472. free.
• Book: Crotch . G.R.. 1873. Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. 10.5962/bhl.title.38811. free. 0665070772.
• Book: Evans . Arthur V.. Hogue . James N.. 2006. Field Guide to Beetles of California. University of California Press. 978-0520246577.
• Klimaszewski . Jan. Watt . J.Charles. 1997. Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification. Fauna of New Zealand. 37.
• Book: Lawrence . J.F.. Newton Jr. . A.F.. Pakaluk . James. Slipinski . Stanislaw Adam. 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. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. 2. 779–1006. 83-85192-34-4.
• Book: LeConte . J.L.. 1861. Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Smithsonian Institution. 3. 136. 0665100558. 10.5962/bhl.title.38459. free.
• Book: Leng . Charles W.. 1920. Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.. 10.5962/bhl.title.8777. free.
• Lord . Nathan Patrick. Hartley . Christopher S.. Lawrence . John F.. McHugh . Joseph V.. Whiting . Michael. 4. 2010. Phylogenetic analysis of the minute brown scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Latridiidae), and recognition of a new beetle family, Akalyptoischiidae fam. n. (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea). Systematic Entomology. 35. 4. 753–763. 0307-6970. 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00532.x. 54735522.
• Poole . Robert W.. Gentili . Patricia. 1996. A Check List of the Insects of North America: Coleoptera. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America. Entomological Information Services. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera. 41–820. 9781889002019.
• Price . M.B.. Young . D.K.. 2006. An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae). Insecta Mundi. 20. 69–84.
• Book: White. Richard E.. 1998. 1983. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 0395910897. registration.