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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles (Elateroidea) » Net-winged Beetles (Lycidae) » Erotinae » Dictyoptera » Golden Net-wing (Dictyoptera aurora)

Species Dictyoptera aurora - Golden Net-wing

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Golden Net-winged Beetle - Dictyoptera aurora

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Elateroidea (Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles)

Family Lycidae (Net-winged Beetles)

Subfamily Erotinae

Genus Dictyoptera

Species aurora (Golden Net-wing)

Other Common Names

Red Net-winged Beetle, golden net-winged beetle

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Orig. Comb: Pyrochroa aurora Herbst, 1784

Syn: Dictyopterus Mulsant 1838

Syn: Eros aurora (Herbst)

Explanation of Names

Specific name aurora refers to the Roman Goddess of the Dawn, no doubt for the color of the beetle.

Common name suggested by Papp (1).

Numbers

4 spp. n. of Mex. (2)

Size

6-13 mm

Identification

Small bright red/orange beetle with pleated elytra, prominent pronotum.

Scanograph - Oleg Berlov

Range

Much of North America (AZ-FL-Hudson Bay-Alaska), also Europe, Siberia. (3)

Habitat

Macro: coniferous or mixed coniferous forests (2)

Micro: decaying logs, adults on flwrs

Season

NC: March-April (June in mountains), and sometimes September, December.

Food

Unknown.

Life Cycle

Larvae are predators under bark (4).

Print References

Brimley, p. 153--Eros aurora (5)

Dillon and Dillon, Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America (6)

Marshall, photo 317.5 (4)

Papp, Intro. to North American Beetles (1)

Internet References

Scanograph - Oleg Berlov

InsectMuseum.org

North Carolina State University Entomology Collection--50 pinned.

Works Cited

1.	Introduction to North American Beetles By Charles S. Papp

2.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)

3.	Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico ("The Leng Catalogue") By Charles W. Leng. 1920.

4.	Insects: Their Natural History And Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America By Stephen A. Marshall

5.	Insects of North Carolina By C.S. Brimley

6.	A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America By Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence

Contributed by Cotinis on 18 March, 2004 - 10:19pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 18 July, 2011 - 6:37am

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