Cillaeinae

Cillaeinae is a subfamily of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are about 9 genera and at least 150 described species in Cillaeinae.^[1][2]

Cillaeinae
Conotelus sp.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Nitidulidae
Subfamily:	Cillaeinae Kirejtshuk & Audisio in Kirejtshuk, 1986

Genera

• Apetasimus Sharp in Sharp and Scott, 1908
• Brachypeplus Erichson, 1842
• Cillaeopeplus Sharp in Sharp and Scott, 1908
• Colopterus Erichson, 1842
• Conotelus Erichson, 1843
• Eupetinus Sharp in Sharp and Scott, 1908
• Gonioryctus Sharp, 1878
• Orthostolus Sharp in Sharp and Scott, 1908
• Prosopeus Murray, 1864

References

1. "Cillaeinae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
2. "Cillaeinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 31 January 2018.

• Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys, vol. 88, 1–972.
• Habeck, Dale H. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 77. Nitidulidae Latreille 1802". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 311–315.
• Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2, 779–1006.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.