Dorcatominae is a subfamily of death-watch and spider beetles in the family Ptinidae. There are about 16 genera and at least 190 described species in Dorcatominae.[1][2][3][4][5]
| Dorcatominae | |
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| Caenocara | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Ptinidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorcatominae C. G. Thomson, 1859 |
The subfamily Dorcatominae, along with Anobiinae and several others, were formerly considered members of the family Anobiidae, but the family name has since been changed to Ptinidae.[5][3][4][2]
Genera edit
These 16 genera belong to the subfamily Dorcatominae:
- Anitys Thomson, 1863 g
- Byrrhodes LeConte, 1878 i c g b
- Caenocara Thomson, 1859 i c g b (puffball beetles)
- Calymmaderus Solier, 1849 i c g b
- Calytheca White, 1973 i c g
- Cryptoramorphus White, 1966-01 i c g
- Dorcatoma Herbst, 1792 i c g b
- Mirosternus Sharp, 1881 i c g
- Mizodorcatoma Hayashi, 1955 g
- Petalium LeConte, 1861 i c g b
- Protheca LeConte, 1865 i c g b
- Sculptotheca Schilsky, 1900 i c g b
- Stagetus Wollaston, 1861 i c g b
- Stichtoptychus Fall, 1905 i c g b
- Striatheca White, 1973 i c g b
- † Venablesia Britton, 1960 g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[6] g = GBIF,[7] b = Bugguide.net[2]
References edit
- ^ a b "Dorcatominae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ^ a b c "Dorcatominae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ^ a b Bell, Karen Leanne; Philips, T. Keith (2011). "Molecular systematics and evolution of the Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) and related families" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 165. Linnean Society of London: 88–108. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00792.x.
- ^ a b
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-87-88757-67-5.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help) - ^ a b Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
- ^ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ^ "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-08-29.
Further reading edit
- Arango, Rachel A.; Young, Daniel K. (2012). "Death-watch and spider beetles of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Ptinidae)" (PDF). General Technical Report FPL-GTR-209. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-20. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Borowski, Jerzy; Wegrzynowicz, Piotr (2007). World Catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera). Wydawnictwo Mantis. ISBN 9788392618218.
- Lawrence, J.F.; Newton Jr., A.F. (1995). Pakaluk, James; Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam (eds.). 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. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. pp. 779–1006. ISBN 978-83-85192-34-3.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0395910894.
External links edit
Media related to Dorcatominae at Wikimedia Commons
