Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Subfamily Silinae

Cantharid - Silis percomis Beetle - Ditemnus soldier beetle - Tytthonyx erythrocephala Polemius? - Polemius Mating, Discodon? - male - female Mating, Discodon? - Discodon - male - female Arizona Beetle for ID - Discodon Cantharid - Silis
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(1)
Range
Silini: worldwide, much more diverse in the tropics; Tytthonyxini: e. US to C. America & West Indies(1)
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.