Hololeptini

Hololeptini
Hololepta elongata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Histeridae
Subfamily:	Histerinae
Tribe:	Hololeptini Hope, 1840

Hololeptini is a tribe of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are about 6 genera and more than 130 described species in Hololeptini.[1][2][3]

Hololepta plana

Genera

These six genera belong to the tribe Hololeptini:

• Dimalus Marseul, 1870
• Eutidium Lewis, 1903
• Hololepta Paykull, 1811 (clown beetles)
• Iliotona Carnochan, 1917
• Oxysternus Erichson, 1834
• Petalosoma Lewis, 1903

References

1. "Hololeptini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Hololeptini tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.

Further reading

• Majka, Christopher G. (2008). "Contributions to the knowledge of Atlantic Canadian Histeridae (Coleoptera)". ZooKeys (2): 189–202. doi:10.3897/zookeys.2.3.
• Mazur, Slawomir (2011). A Concise Catalogue of the Histeridae (Insecta: Coleoptera). WULS - SGGW Press. ISBN 978-83-7583-3171.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.
• LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.

External links

• Media related to Hololeptini at Wikimedia Commons