Genus Dictyoptera

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Works Cited

Dictypoterus simplicipes? - Dictyoptera simplicipes

Mt. Tam Red Beetle - Dictyoptera simplicipes

Netwing beetle, Lycidae - Dictyoptera simplicipes

Dictyoptera aurora - Dictyoptera coccinata

Net Winged Beetle On a Leaf - Dictyoptera simplicipes

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Elateroidea

Family Lycidae (Net-winged Beetles)

Subfamily Erotinae

Genus Dictyoptera

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dictyopterus Mulsant 1838

The name is surrounded by much confusion: "As for the spelling... the earliest I have is Panzer (1793) who spelled it Dictyopterus, then Say (1824) who spelled it Dictyopterus too, for US species, then came Guérin-Méneville (1829) who spelled it Dictyoptera. Both spellings have been bounced around through two centuries now. I don't know if there's a contemporary resolution to it, although Bocak, Bocakova and Kazantsev, world authorities, spell it Dictyoptera." (J.M. Cicero's comment)

Dictyoptera is also used sometimes (not on BG) as the name for a taxon that includes mantids, cockroaches, and termites

Explanation of Names

Dictyoptera Latreille 1829

from Greek diktyon 'net' + pteron 'wing'(1)

Numbers

2 spp. in our area, 20 total(2)(3)

Range

Holarctic & Oriental, most diverse in E/SE Asia; in our area, across NA north to LB-NT-AK (D. aurora transcontinental, D. simplicipes western)(2)(4)(5)

Habitat

coniferous and mixed coniferous forests(5)

Works Cited

1.	Composition of scientific words Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.

2.	Phylogeny of the tribe Erotini (Coleoptera, Lycidae), with descriptions of new taxa Kazantsev S.V. 2004. Zootaxa 496: 1–48.

3.	BioLib.cz

4.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

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

Contributed by Cotinis on 18 March, 2004 - 10:01pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 23 February, 2024 - 10:49am

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