Fire-coloured beetle

Fire-coloured beetles
Pyrochroa coccinea female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea
Family: Pyrochroidae
Latreille, 1807
Subfamilies

Agnathinae
Pedilinae
Pilipalpinae
Pyrochroinae
Tydessinae

Fire-coloured beetles are the beetles of the Pyrochroidae family, which includes the red cardinal beetles. This family contains some 150 species. Many species in the subfamily Pyrochroinae have comb- or antler-like antennae. This family also now includes most former members of the defunct family Pedilidae.

Pyrochroa serraticornis

Genera

These 21 genera belong to the family Pyrochroidae:

  • Agnathus Germar, 1818 g
  • Anisotria b
  • Cononotus Leconte, 1851 b
  • Dendroides Latreille, 1810 i c g b
  • Exocalopus Broun, 1893 g
  • Frontodendroidopsis Young, 2004 g
  • Hemidendroides Ferrari, 1869 g
  • Lithomacratria Wickham, 1914 g
  • Malagaethes Pollock, 1995 g
  • Neopyrochroa Blair, 1914 g b
  • Palaeopyrochroa Abdullah, 1965 g
  • Pedilus Fischer von Waldheim, 1820 i c g b
  • Pogonoceromorphus Pic, 1921 g
  • Pseudodendroides Blair, 1914 g
  • Pseudodentroides g
  • Pseudopyrochroa Pic, 1906 g
  • Pyrochroa Müller, 1764 g
  • Ranomafana Pollock, 1995 g
  • Schizotus Newman, 1838 g b
  • Techmessodes Broun, 1893 g
  • Tydessa Peacock, 1982 g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Pyrochroidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  2. ↑ "Browse Pyrochroidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. ↑ "Pyrochroidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  4. ↑ "Pyrochroidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-06.



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