Dasycerinae

Subfamily of beetles

Dasycerinae
Dasycerus bicolor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Staphylinidae
Subfamily: Dasycerinae
Reitter, 1887
Genera

1 extant genus, 3 extinct; see text.

Dasycerinae is a subfamily of rove beetles.[1] Dasycerinae currently only contains 1 extant genus and 3 extinct genera.[2]

Genera

There are currently 4 described genera in Dasycerinae:[2]

  • †Cedasyrus Yin & Cai, 2020
  • Dasycerus Brongniart, 1800
  • †Protodasycerus Yamamoto, 2016
  • †Vetudasycerus Cai, Thayer, Newton, Yin & Huang, 2018

(† = extinct)

Anatomy

They have antennae with 11 segments and trisegmented antennal clubs. The tarsi have three segments, and the elytra cover or nearly cover the entire abdomen.

Ecology

These beetles inhabit moist broadleaf forest litter.[3] Eastern species are wingless with small eyes; dissected females have only been found with a single egg. They are known to occur on fruiting fungi, but may not specifically feed on them.

References

  1. ^ Newton, A. F., Jr., M. K. Thayer, J. S. Ashe, and D. S. Chandler. 2001. 22. Staphylinidae Latreille, 1802. p. 272–418. In: R. H. Arnett, Jr., and M. C. Thomas (eds.). American beetles, Volume 1. CRC Press; Boca Raton, Florida. ix + 443 p.
  2. ^ a b Yin, Zi-Wei; Lü, Liang; Yamamoto, Shûhei; Thayer, Margaret K.; Newton, Alfred F.; Cai, Chen-Yang (2021). "Dasycerine rove beetles: Cretaceous diversification, phylogeny and historical biogeography (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Dasycerinae)". Cladistics. 37 (2): 185–210. doi:10.1111/cla.12430. ISSN 1096-0031. PMID 34478187.
  3. ^ Ferro, M. L., M. L. Gimmel, K. E. Harms, and C. E. Carlton. 2012a. Comparison of the Coleoptera communities in leaf litter and rotten wood in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Insecta Mundi 259: 1–58. [1]

Further reading

  • Herman, L.H. 2001: Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. I. Introduction, history, biographical sketches, and omaliine group. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (265): 1–650. [2]
  • Löbl, I., and F. G. Calame. 1996. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Dasycerinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Journal of Natural History 30: 247–291.
  • Wheeler, Q. D., and J. V. McHugh. 1994. A new southern Appalachian species, Dasycerus bicolor (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Dasycerinae), from declining endemic fir forests. The Coleopterists Bulletin 48: 265–271.

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Extant Coleoptera families
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Arthropoda
  • Class: Insecta
  • Subclass: Pterygota
  • Infraclass: Neoptera
  • Superorder: Holometabola
Suborder Archostemata
  • Crowsoniellidae (Crowsoniella relicta)
  • Cupedidae (reticulated beetles)
  • Jurodidae (Sikhotealinia zhiltzovae)
  • Micromalthidae
  • Ommatidae
Suborder Adephaga
Extant families
  • Amphizoidae (trout-stream beetles)
  • Aspidytidae
  • Carabidae (ground beetles)
  • Cicindelidae (tiger beetles)
  • Dytiscidae (predaceous diving beetles)
  • Gyrinidae (whirligig beetles)
  • Haliplidae (crawling water beetles)
  • Hygrobiidae
  • Meruidae (Meru phyllisae)
  • Noteridae (burrowing water beetles)
  • Trachypachidae (false ground beetles)
Suborder Myxophaga
Suborder Polyphaga
Bostrichiformia
Bostrichoidea
  • Bostrichidae (auger beetles)
  • Dermestidae (skin beetles)
  • Endecatomidae
  • Jacobsoniidae (Jacobson's beetles)
  • Nosodendridae (wounded-tree beetles)
  • Ptiniidae (furniture beetles, death watch beetles, spider beetles)
Derodontoidea
  • Derodontidae (tooth-necked fungus beetles)
Cucujiformia
Chrysomeloidea
Cleroidea
Coccinelloidea
Cucujoidea
Curculionoidea
(weevils)
  • Anthribidae (fungus weevils)
  • Attelabidae (leaf-rolling weevils)
  • Belidae (primitive weevils)
  • Brentidae (straight snout weevils, New York weevil)
  • Caridae
  • Curculionidae (true weevils, bark beetles, ambrosia beetles)
  • Nemonychidae (pine flower weevils)
Lymexyloidea
  • Lymexylidae (ship-timber beetles)
Tenebrionoidea
  • Aderidae (ant-like leaf beetles)
  • Anthicidae (ant-like flower beetles)
  • Archeocrypticidae (cryptic fungus beetles)
  • Boridae (conifer bark beetles)
  • Chalcodryidae
  • Ciidae (minute tree-fungus beetles)
  • Melandryidae (false darkling beetles)
  • Meloidae (blister beetles)
  • Mordellidae (tumbling flower beetles)
  • Mycetophagidae (hairy fungus beetles)
  • Mycteridae (palm and flower beetles)
  • Oedemeridae (false blister beetle)
  • Perimylopidae, or Promecheilidae
  • Prostomidae (jugular-horned beetles)
  • Pterogeniidae
  • Pyrochroidae (fire-coloured beetles)
  • Pythidae (dead log bark beetles)
  • Ripiphoridae (wedge-shaped beetles)
  • Salpingidae (narrow-waisted bark beetles)
  • Scraptiidae (false flower beetles)
  • Stenotrachelidae (false longhorn beetles)
  • Synchroidae (synchroa bark beetles)
  • Tenebrionidae (darkling beetles)
  • Tetratomidae (polypore fungus beetles)
  • Trictenotomidae
  • Ulodidae
  • Zopheridae (ironclad beetles, cylindrical bark beetles)
Elateriformia
Buprestoidea
  • Buprestidae (jewel beetles, or metallic wood-boring beetles)
  • Schizopodidae
Byrrhoidea
  • Byrrhidae (pill beetles)
  • Callirhipidae (cedar beetles)
  • Chelonariidae (turtle beetles)
  • Cneoglossidae
  • Dryopidae (long-toed water beetles)
  • Elmidae (riffle beetles)
  • Eulichadidae (forest stream beetles)
  • Heteroceridae (variegated mud-loving beetles)
  • Limnichidae (minute mud beetles)
  • Lutrochidae (travertine beetles)
  • Psephenidae (water-penny beetles)
  • Ptilodactylidae
Dascilloidea
  • Dascillidae (soft bodied plant beetles)
  • Rhipiceridae (cicada beetle, cicada parasite beetles)
Elateroidea
  • Artematopodidae (soft-bodied plant beetles)
  • Brachypsectridae (Texas beetles)
  • Cantharidae (soldier beetles)
  • Cerophytidae (rare click beetles)
  • Elateridae (click beetles)
  • Eucnemidae (false click beetles)
  • Jurasaidae
  • Lampyridae (fireflies)
  • Lycidae (net-winged beetles)
  • Omethidae (false fireflies, long-lipped beetles)
  • Phengodidae (glowworm beetles)
  • Rhagophthalmidae
  • Sinopyrophoridae
  • Throscidae (false metallic wood-boring beetles)
Rhinorhipoidea
  • Rhinorhipidae (Rhinorhipus tamborinensis)
Scirtoidea
Scarabaeiformia
Scarabaeoidea
  • Belohinidae (Belohina inexpectata)
  • Bolboceratidae
  • Diphyllostomatidae (false stag beetles)
  • Geotrupidae (dor beetles)
  • Glaphyridae (bumble bee scarab beetles)
  • Glaresidae (enigmatic scarab beetles)
  • Hybosoridae (scavenger scarab beetles)
  • Lucanidae (stag beetles)
  • Ochodaeidae (sand-loving scarab beetles)
  • Passalidae (betsy beetles)
  • Pleocomidae (rain beetles)
  • Scarabaeidae (scarabs)
  • Trogidae (hide beetles)
Staphyliniformia
Histeroidea
  • Histeridae (clown beetles)
  • Sphaeritidae (false clown beetles)
  • Synteliidae
Hydrophiloidea
Staphylinoidea
  • Agyrtidae (primitive carrion beetles)
  • Hydraenidae
  • Leiodidae (round fungus beetles)
  • Ptiliidae (feather-winged beetles)
  • Silphidae (carrion beetles)
  • Staphylinidae (rove beetles)
Taxon identifiers
Dasycerinae