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Abraeinae is a subfamily of clown beetles in the family
Histeridae Histeridae is a family of beetles commonly known as clown beetles or Hister beetles. This very diverse group of beetles contains 3,900 species found worldwide. They can be easily identified by their shortened elytra that leaves two of the seven ...
. There are at least 20 genera and at least 440 described species in Abraeinae. Many of the groups are tiny, with adults less than 2 mm in length. These beetles are diverse in form with a small oval specie that separates them from all the other histerids expect for the Bacaniini. The Abraeinae lacks of a separate basal piece of the aedeagus.


Genera

* Abaeletes Cooman, 1940 * Abraeus Leach, 1817 * Acritodes Cooman, 1935 * Acritomorphus Wenzel, 1944 * Acritus J. L. LeConte, 1853 * Aeletes Horn, 1873 * Aeletodes Gomy, 1977 * Anophtaeletes Olexa, 1976 * Arizonacritus Gomy & Warner, 2013 * Chaetabraeus Portevin, 1929 * Eubrachium Wollaston, 1862 * Halacritus Schmidt, 1893 * Iberacritus Yélamos, 1994 * Mascarenium Gomy, 1978 * Phloeolister Bickhardt, 1916 * Plegaderus Erichson, 1834 * Pleuroleptus G. Müller, 1937 * Spelaeabraeus Moro, 1957 * Spelaeacritus Jeannel, 1934 * Teretriosoma Horn, 1873 * Teretrius Erichson, 1834 * Therondus Gomy, 1974 * Trypolister Bickhardt, 1916 * Xiphonotus Lacordaire, 1854


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. * Mazur, Slawomir (1997). "A world catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea)". ''Genus, International Journal of Invertebrate Taxonomy (Supplement)'', 373.


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.


External links


NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Abraeinae
Histeridae Polyphaga subfamilies {{Polyphaga-stub