beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
order
Coleoptera
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
, members of which are commonly called net-winged beetles. These beetles are cosmopolitan, being found in Nearctic, Palearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, and Australian ecoregions.Lawrence, J.F., Hastings, A.M., Dallwitz, M.J., Paine, T.A., and Zurcher, E.J. 2000 onwards. Elateriformia (Coleoptera): descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval for families and subfamilies. Version: 9 October 200 /ref>
Description
Beetles of this family are elongated and usually found on flowers or stems. Adult males are about 10–15 mm in length, while females are a bit larger. The adults of some species are
nectarivore
In zoology, a nectarivore is an animal which derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of the sugar-rich nectar produced by flowering plants.
Nectar as a food source presents a number of benefits a ...
s, while some may have short adult lives during which they may not feed at all. The head is triangular and the antennae are long, thick, and serrated. Most of them are brick-red in colour. They are protected from predators by being toxic. The predaceous larvae grow under bark or in leaf litter.
Selected genera
These following genera belong to the family Lycidae:
* '' Acroleptus'' Bourgeois, 1886 g
* '' Adoceta'' Bourgeois, 1882 i c g
* '' Alyculus'' Kasantsev, 1999 g
* '' Benibotarus'' Kono, 1932 i c g
* '' Brasilycus'' do Nascimento & Bocáková, 2010 g
* '' Bulenides'' Waterhouse, 1879 g
* ''
Caenia
''Caenia'' is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae. There are at least 3 described species in ''Caenia''.
Species
* ''Caenia amplicornis'' LeConte, 1881
* ''Caenia dimidiata'' (Fabricius, 1801)
* ''Caenia sp-nova
''Caenia'' is ...
'' Newman, 1838 i c g b
* '' Calcaeron'' Kazantsev, 2004 g
* ''
Calochromus
''Calochromus'' is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae. There are at least 20 described species in ''Calochromus''.
Species
These 20 species belong to the genus ''Calochromus'':
* '' Calochromus conveniens'' Kleine, 1926
* '' Ca ...
'' Guérin Méneville, 1833 i c g b
* ''
Calopteron
''Calopteron'' is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae.
They are toxic and have aposematic
Aposematism is the advertising by an animal to potential predators that it is not worth attacking or eating. This unprofitability ma ...
'' Laporte, 1838 i c g b
* '' Caloptognatha'' Green, 1954 i c g
* '' Cartagonum'' Pic, 1922 g
* ''
Cautires
''Cautires'' is a genus of beetles in the family Lycidae
The Lycidae are a family in the beetle order Coleoptera, members of which are commonly called net-winged beetles. These beetles are cosmopolitan, being found in Nearctic, Palearctic, N ...
'' Waterhouse, 1879 g
* '' Ceratoprion'' Gorham, 1884 g
* '' Cessator'' Kazantsev, 2009 g
* '' Cladophorus'' Guérin-Méneville, 1830 g
* '' Conderis'' Waterhouse, 1879 g
* '' Cyrtopteron'' Bourgeois, 1905 g
* '' Dexoris'' Waterhouse, 1878 g
* '' Diatrichalus'' Kleine, 1926 g
* ''
Dictyoptera
Dictyoptera (from Greek δίκτυον ''diktyon'' "net" and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing") is an insect superorder that includes two extant orders of polyneopterous insects: the order Blattodea (termites and cockroaches together) and the ord ...
'' Latreille, 1829 i c g b
* '' Dihammatus'' Waterhouse, 1879 g
* '' Dilophotes'' Waterhouse, 1879 g
* '' Ditoneces'' Waterhouse, 1879 g
* ''
Duliticola
''Platerodrilus'' is a genus of beetles of the family Lycidae. They commonly appear in the literature under the name ''Duliticola'', which is an obsolete junior synonym. The females retain a larval form as adults (larviform females) and are abou ...
'' Mjöberg, 1925 g
* '' Electropteron'' Kazantsev, 2012 g
* '' Emplectus'' Erichson, 1847 g
* '' Eniclases'' Waterhouse, 1879 g
* ''
Eropterus
''Eropterus'' is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae
The Lycidae are a family in the beetle order Coleoptera, members of which are commonly called net-winged beetles. These beetles are cosmopolitan, being found in Nearctic, Pa ...
'' Green, 1951 i c g b
* ''
Eros
In Greek mythology, Eros (, ; grc, Ἔρως, Érōs, Love, Desire) is the Greek god of love and sex. His Roman counterpart was Cupid ("desire").''Larousse Desk Reference Encyclopedia'', The Book People, Haydock, 1995, p. 215. In the earli ...
Leptoceletes
''Leptoceletes'' is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae
The Lycidae are a family in the beetle order Coleoptera, members of which are commonly called net-winged beetles. These beetles are cosmopolitan, being found in Nearctic, ...
Lucaina
''Lucaina'' is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae. There are at least 2 described species in ''Lucaina''.
Species
* ''Lucaina discoidalis'' Horn, 1885
* ''Lucaina marginata'' Gorham, 1883
References
Further reading
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'' Dugés, 1878 i c g b
* '' Lycomorphon'' Pic, 1922 g
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Lyconotus
''Lyconotus'' is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae
The Lycidae are a family in the beetle order Coleoptera, members of which are commonly called net-winged beetles. These beetles are cosmopolitan, being found in Nearctic, Pa ...
'' Green, 1949 i c g b
* '' Lycoprogentes'' Pic, 1915 g
* ''
Lycostomus
''Lycostomus'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Lycidae
The Lycidae are a family in the beetle order Coleoptera, members of which are commonly called net-winged beetles. These beetles are cosmopolitan, being found in Nearctic, Pa ...
Plateros
''Plateros'' is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae and the tribe Platerodini. Species are recorded from the Americas, Africa and Asia, including Sri Lanka, Indochina, Korea and Japan. i c g b
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Platycis
''Platycis'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Lycidae
The Lycidae are a family in the beetle order Coleoptera, members of which are commonly called net-winged beetles. These beetles are cosmopolitan, being found in Nearctic, Pale ...
Burmese amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...
Dominican amber
Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic derived from resin of the extinct tree ''Hymenaea protera''.
Dominican amber differentiates itself from Baltic amber by being nearly always transparent, and it has a higher number of fossil incl ...
, Miocene
†''Miocaenia'' Wickham 1914
Florissant Formation
The Florissant Formation is a sedimentary geologic formation outcropping around Florissant, Teller County, Colorado. The formation is noted for the abundant and exceptionally preserved insect and plant fossils that are found in the mudstones and ...
, Eocene
Gallery
File:Beetle fam.jpg, A lycid from India
File:Lycidae-Kadavoor-2017-05-22-001.jpg, A lycid larva or
larviform female Larviform female is a biological phenomenon occurring in some insect species, where the females in the adult stage of metamorphosis resemble the larvae to various degrees, while the male appears more morphologically adult (as imagoes). The resemblan ...
File:Porrostoma rhipidius444.jpg, Mating ''
Porrostoma rhipidium
''Porrostoma rhipidius'' is a species of net-winged beetle in the family Lycidae, found widely in Australia. The name is sometimes misspelled as "''rhipidium''" but under ICZN
The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a wide ...
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...