Lycidae
| Net-winged beetles | |
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| Metriorrhynchus rhipidius | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
| Superfamily: | Elateroidea |
| Family: | Lycidae Laporte, 1836 |
| Genera | |
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Caenia | |
The Lycidae are a family in the beetle order Coleoptera, members of which are commonly called net-winged beetles.
Description
Beetles of this family are elongated and usually found on flowers or stems. Adults are about 10-15 mm in length, while females are a bit larger. The adults of some species are nectarivores, 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.
Distribution
These beetles are cosmopolitan, being found in Nearctic, Palearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, and Australian ecoregions.[2] Calopteron discrepans is found in the Eastern United States from New England south to Florida.[3]
Gallery
A lycid from India
Mating Metriorrhynchus rhipidius
References
- ↑ Milan Dvorak & Ladislav Bocak 2007. Sulabanus gen. nov., a new genus of Lycidae (Coleoptera) from Sulawesi. Zootaxa 1611:1-24
- ↑ 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 2005
- ↑ Calopteron discrepans, banded net-winged beetle
External links
Media related to Lycidae at Wikimedia Commons- Flickr Lycidae correctly tagged images
- Lycid beetles
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