FAMILY LYCIDAE (Net-winged beetles)
J. McNamara
Twenty-nine species of Lycidae are recorded from Canada and Alaska. The adults occur on leaves, flowers, or under bark and are thought to be predaceous. The larvae are predaceous and those of most species are found under bark. The taxonomy of the North American species of Lycidae has been revised by Green in a series of publications; his paper of 1949 includes a key to the Nearctic tribes.
AK (3); YK (1); NT (1); BC (8); AB (3); SK (2); MB (8); ON (25); PQ (11); NB (5); NS (5); LB (1); NF (1)
Subfamily LYCINAE Tribe Lygistopterini Key to North American species: Green (1950)
Genus CALOCHROMUS Guérin-Méneville
C. dimidiatus (LeConte) - - - BC ------C. fervens LeConte - - - BC AB ------C. perfacetus (Say) - - - - - SK - ON PQ - - - - - substriatus (LeConte)
Tribe Platerodini Key to North American species: Green (1951, 1953)
Genus DICTYOPTERUS Mulsant
D. aurora (Herbst) AK YK NT BC AB - MB ON PQ NB NS - LB NF coccinatus (Say) nigripes (Schaeffer) D. hamatus Mannerheim AK - - BC ------D. simplicipes Mannerheim AK - - BC AB ------laetus Motschulsky D. thoracicus (Randall) - - - BC - SK MB ON ------praefectus (Newman)
Genus EROS Newman
E. humeralis (Fabricius) ------ON PQ - - - - - incestus LeConte obliquus (Say)
Genus PLATYCIS Thomson Erotides Waterhouse
P. sculptilis (Say) ------ON ------axillaris (Melsheimer) oblita (Newman)
Genus LOPHEROS LeConte
L. crenatus (Germar) ------MB ON PQ - - - - - cruciatus (Randall) L. fraternus (Randall) ------ON ------
Genus EROPTERUS Green
E. arculus Green ------ON ------E. trilineatus (Melsheimer) ------ON PQ - - - - -
Genus PLATEROS Bourgeois Neoceletes Leng & Shoemaker
P. batillifer Green ------ON ------P. bispiculatus Green ------ON ------P. borealis Green ------ON ------P. centralis Green ------ON ------P. flavoscutellatus Blatchley ------ON - - NS - - - P. floralis (Melsheimer) ------ON ------P. lictor (Newman) - - - BC - - MB ON PQ NB NS - - - californicus Van Dyke columbiensis W.J.Brown crateracollis (Leng & Shoemaker) P. peregrinus Green - - - BC - - - ON PQ - - - - - P. subfurcatus Green ------ON ------P. timidus (LeConte) ------ON ------P. volatus Green ------ON - NB - - - -
Tribe Calopterini Key to North American species: Green (1952)
Genus CALOPTERON Guérin-Méneville Diagrapha Newman
C. discrepans (Newman) ------MB ON PQ - - - - - C. reticulatum (Fabricius) ------ON ------affinis (LeConte) retiferum LeConte typicum (Newman) C. terminale (Say) ------MB ON PQ - - - - - apicale (LeConte) divisum (Newman) dorsale (Newman) duplicatum (Haldeman)
Genus CAENIA Newman Caeniella Cockerell
C. dimidiata (Fabricius) ------MB ON PQ NB NS - - - scapularis Newman
Genus CELETES Newman
C. basalis LeConte ------MB ON PQ NB NS - - - mystacina LeConte tabida LeConte