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Silinae
Subfamily Silinae
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
Cantharidae (Soldier Beetles)
Subfamily
Silinae
Explanation of Names
Silinae Mulsant 1862
Numbers
2 tribes (the subcosmopolitan Silini and the New World Tytthonyxini with just one genus); >100 spp. in 6 genera in our area
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Range
Silini: worldwide, much more diverse in the tropics; Tytthonyxini: e. US to C. America & West Indies
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Works Cited
1.
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
v belov
on 29 July, 2009 - 11:38pm
Last updated 15 January, 2015 - 7:48pm