Cantharinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Cantharidae. There are at least 200 described species in Cantharinae.[1][2]

Cantharinae
Temporal range: Albian–Recent
Cantharis fusca (type genus and species)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cantharidae
Subfamily: Cantharinae
Imhoff, 1856
Taxonomic note
  • Lawrence and Newton (1995) give the authorship of this subfamily as Imhoff, 1856 (1815).[2]

Tribes and genera

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Two tribes are accepted:

 
Rhaxonycha carolina

Auth.: Gistel, 1856[3]

 
Podabrus tricostatus
 
Stenothemus cou (possibly a synonym of Falsopodabrus)[4]

†Cacomorphocerini

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Auth: Fanti and Kupryjanowicz 2018, all known members originate from the Eocene aged Baltic amber

Katyacantharis Kazantsev and Perkovsky 2019, Agdzhakend amber, Azerbaijan, Cenomanian

References

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  1. ^ "Cantharinae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  2. ^ a b "Cantharinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  3. ^ BioLib.cz: tribus Podabrini Gistel, 1856 (retrieved 3 July 2020)
  4. ^ BioLib.cz: species Falsopodabrus martensi (Wittmer, 1979) retrieved 3 July 2020
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ramsdale, Alistair S. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 64. Cantharidae". American Beetles, volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 202–218.

Further reading

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  • NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Cantharinae
  • Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
  • 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.