Histeridae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Histeroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Histeroidea

Familia: Histeridae
Subfamiliae (11): Abraeinae – Chlamydopsinae – Dendrophilinae – Hetaeriinae – Histerinae – Niponiinae – Onthophilinae – Saprininae – Tribalinae – Trypanaeinae – Trypeticinae

Overview of genera

Abraeomorphus – Abraeus – Atholus – Aeletes – Acritus – Amplectister – Bacanius – Carcinops – Geomysaprinus – Hololepta – Hister – Neopachylopus – Pacifister – Platylomalus – Pachylister – Plaesius – Paraeuspilotus – Paromalus – Saprinus
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Name

Histeridae Gyllenhal, 1808

Synonymy

Niponiidae Fowler, 1912

References

Primary references

Gyllenhal, L. 1808. Insecta Suecica. Classis I. Coleoptera sive Eleuterata. Tomus I. Scaris: L.J. Leverentz, viii + [4] + 572 pp. BHL. Reference page.

Additional references

Aballay, F.H., Arriagada, G., Flores, G.E. & Centeno, N.D. 2013. An illustrated key to and diagnoses of the species of Histeridae (Coleoptera) associated with decaying carcasses in Argentina. ZooKeys 261: 61–84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.261.4226 Reference page.
Bousquet, Y.; Laplante, S. 1999: Les Coléoptères Histéridés du Québec Association des Entomologiste Amateurs du Québec
Caterino, M.S. & Maddison, D.R. 2018. An early and mysterious histerid inquiline from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Histeridae). ZooKeys 733: 119–129. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.733.23126. Reference page.
Caterino, M.S.; Vogler, A.P. 2002: The phylogeny of the Histeroidea (Coleoptera: Staphyliniformia). Cladistics, 18(4): 394–415. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2002.tb00158.x
Caterino, M.S., Wolf-Schwenninger, K. & Bechly, G. 2015. Cretonthophilus tuberculatus, a remarkable new genus and species of hister beetle (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zootaxa 4052(2): 241–245. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.2.10. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Mazur, S. 2009: Family Histeridae. Pp. 45-55 in: Gerlach, J. (ed.) The Coleoptera of the Seychelles Islands. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow. ISBN 9789546424983
Penati, F. 2009: An updated catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia, with faunistic, zoogeographical, ecological and conservation remarks. Pp. 197-280 in: Cerretti, P.; Mason, F.; Minelli, A.; Nardi, G.; Whitmore, D. (eds), Research on the terrestrial arthropods of Sardinia (Italy). Zootaxa, 2318: 1–602. Abstract & excerpt PDF
Poinar, G., jr.; Brown, A.E. 2009: Pantostictus burmanicus, a new genus and species of Cretaceous beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea: Histeridae) in Burmese amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 111: 38–46.
Shayya, S. & Lackner, T. 2020. Contribution to the knowledge of the clown beetle fauna of Lebanon, with a key to all species (Coleoptera, Histeridae). ZooKeys, 960: 79–123. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.960.50186 Reference page.
Ślipiński, S.A.; Mazur, S. 1999: Epuraeosoma, a new genus of Histerinae and phylogeny of the family Histeridae (Coleoptera, Histeroidea). Annales zoologici (Warsaw), 49: 209–230.
Wenzel, R.L. 1955: The histerid beetles of New Caledonia (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Fieldiana, zoology, 37(23): 601–634, plates 14-16. Internet Archive BHL
Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2 ed. I. Lobl, & A. Smetana, Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 2004 ISBN 87-88757-74-9, p.68
DOI: 10.5656/KSAE.2012.07.1.074

Links

Caterino, Michael S. 2002. Histeridae. Clown beetles. Version 07 March 2002. http://tolweb.org/Histeridae/9223/2002.03.07 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
Australian Faunal Directory
Histeridae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
Atlas of clown beetles (Histeridae) of Russia
Histeridae – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

Afrikaans: Harlekynkewers
беларуская: Карапузікі
Deutsch: Stutzkäfer
English: Clown beetle
français: Hister
magyar: Sutabogarak
日本語: エンマムシ科
lietuvių: Krypūnėliai
norsk: Stumpbiller
русский: Карапузики
中文: 閻魔蟲科

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