Cillaeinae
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Cillaeinae is a subfamily of sap-feeding beetles in the family
Nitidulidae The sap beetles, also known as Nitidulidae, are a family (biology), family of beetles. They are small (2–6 mm) ovoid, usually dull-coloured beetles, with knobbed antenna (biology), antennae. Some have red or yellow spots or bands. They fe ...
. There are about 9 genera and at least 150 described species in Cillaeinae.


Genera

* '' Apetasimus'' Sharp in Sharp and Scott, 1908 * '' Brachypeplus'' Erichson, 1842 * '' Cillaeopeplus'' Sharp in Sharp and Scott, 1908 * '' Colopterus'' Erichson, 1842 * '' Conotelus'' Erichson, 1843 * '' Eupetinus'' Sharp in Sharp and Scott, 1908 * '' Gonioryctus'' Sharp, 1878 * '' Orthostolus'' Sharp in Sharp and Scott, 1908 * '' Prosopeus'' Murray, 1864


References

* Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ''ZooKeys'', vol. 88, 1–972. * Habeck, Dale H. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 77. Nitidulidae Latreille 1802". ''American Beetles'', vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 311–315. * 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.


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. Nitidulidae Beetle subfamilies {{nitidulidae-stub