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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » 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 · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · See Also · Works Cited

Golden Net-winged Beetle - Dictyoptera aurora

Golden Net-wing Beetle - Dictyoptera aurora

Golden Net-wing - Dictyoptera aurora? - Dictyoptera aurora

Dictyoptera aurora (Herbst) - Dictyoptera aurora

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

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

Eros aurora (Herbst)

Explanation of Names

Dictyoptera aurora (Herbst 1784)

Aurora, the Roman goddess of dawn (refers to the color of the beetle)

Size

6.5-11.0 mm(1)

Identification

Black venter, black spot on pronotal disc, black scutellum. --Joe Cicero, 16.V.2013

Range

holarctic, across n. Eurasia & NA (LB-NT-AK to FL-AZ)(2)(3)

Habitat

coniferous/mixed forests, in decaying logs; adults on and under bark of decaying stumps and on tree trunks; also on flowers(1)(4)

See Also

Punicealis munda

Works Cited

1.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

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

3.	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.

4.	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 - 10:19pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Matt Bertone, v belov
Last updated 17 December, 2016 - 2:06pm

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