Hololeptini

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

Hololeptini
Hololepta elongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Histeridae
Subfamily: Histerinae
Tribe: Hololeptini
Hope, 1840

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. 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.

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