Languriini
| Languriini | |
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| Doubledaya ustulata in Mae On District, Thailand | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Erotylidae |
| Subfamily: | Languriinae |
| Tribe: | Languriini Hope, 1840 ["1841"] |
| Synonyms | |
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Cladoxenini Arrow, 1925 | |
Languriini is a tribe of pleasing fungus beetles (family Erotylidae) commonly known as the lizard beetles. They belong to subfamily Languriinae, formerly a distinct family (in which case the Languriini were up-ranked to subfamily and named Languriinae); sometimes the Languriinae are entirely merged into subfamily Erotylinae.[1] The name Languriini was mistakenly attributed to George Robert Crotch for some time before the early 21st century.[2]
Lizard beetles are a mostly tropical group; while they are very common in temperate North America east of the Rocky Mountains, with less than 20 species in a mere handful of genera they are not particularly diverse there. Adults are generally narrow, parallel-sided or somewhat tapering towards the elytra tips, and often metallic and/or with a red thorax. Unlike other Erotylidae, they are commonly found on leaves or flowers, and their larvae bore into plant stems instead of eating fungi like most of their relatives.[1][3][4]
Genera
Languriini unite about 670 species in roughly 60 genera:[1][5]
- Acropteroxys
- Amyduvea Zia, 1934[6]
- Anadastus Gorham, 1887[6] (=Neolanguria, Perilanguria, Stenodastus)
- Anisoderomorpha Arrow, 1925[6]
- Anomalolanguria Villiers, 1943[6]
- Apterodastus Arrow, 1925[6]
- Basulanguria Sengupta & Mukherjee, 1977[6]
- Brasilanguria Martins & Perreira, 1965[6]
- Caenolanguria Gorham, 1887[6] (=Acrolanguria, Coenolanguria (lapsus), Caenoelanguria (lapsus), Gurilana)
- Callilanguria Crotch, 1876[6]
- Camptocarpus Gorham, 1887[6]
- Celolanguria Arrow, 1925[6]
- Chromauges Gorham, 1887[6]
- Cladoxena Motschulsky, 1866[6]
- Clerolanguria Villiers, 1943[6]
- Compsolanguria Fowler, 1886[6]
- Congodastus Villiers, 1961[6]
- Crotchia Fowler, 1886[6] (=Croatchia (lapsus), "Cladophila" (nomen nudum), Deerratus)
- Dasydactylus
- Doubledaya White, 1850[6] (=Coptolanguria, Cosmolanguria, Glyphilanguria, Languriosoma)
- Ectrapezidera Fowler, 1909[6]
- Epilanguria Fowler, 1908[6] (=Leptolanguria)
- Fatua Crotch, 1876[6] (=Macromelea)
- Ganluria Heller, 1918[6]
- Goniolanguria Crotch, 1875[6] (="Goniocephala", nomen nudum)
- Idiolanguria Arrow, 1925[6]
- Ischnolanguria Kraatz, 1900[6] (=Ischonolanguria (lapsus))
- Labidolanguria Fowler, 1908[6]
- Languria (=Janessa)
- Languriomorpha (sometimes in Pachylanguria)
- Languriophasma Arrow, 1925[6] (= Languriiphasma (lapsus))
- Langurites
- Leucohimatium Rosenhauer, 1856[6] (= Leucohivatium (lapsus))
- Ligurana Chûjô, 1974[6]
- Malleolanguria Martins & Perreira, 1965[6]
- Megalanguria Arrow, 1925[6]
- Meristobelus Gorham, 1887[6]
- Microlanguria Lewis, 1884[6] (=Microcladoxena, Platycladoxena)
- Neanadastus Zia, 1959[6]
- Neocladoxena Maeda, 1974[6]
- Neoloberolus Leschen, 2003[4][5][7]
- Nomotus Gorham, 1887[6]
- Ortholanguria Crotch, 1875[6] (=Ortholanguroides)
- Oxylanguria Crotch, 1876[6]
- Pachylanguria Crotch, 1876[6]
- Paederolanguria Mader, 1939[6] (=Sinolanguria)
- Paracladoxena Fowler, 1886[6] (=Parachladoxena (lapsus))
- Paulianus Villiers, 1943[6]
- Penolanguria Kolbe, 1897[6]
- Pentelanguria Crotch, 1876[6] (=Pentalanguria (lapsus))
- Promecolanguria Fowler, 1885[6] (=Barbaropus)
- Serralanguria Huang, 2025[4][5]
- Slipinskiella Leschen & Węgrzynowicz, 1998[6] (=Promecolanguria auct. nec Fowler, 1885: preoccupied)
- Stenolanguria Fowler, 1885[6]
- Teretilanguria Crotch, 1875[6]
- Tetraphala Sturm, 1843[6] (=Metabellus (lapsus), Metabelus, Tetralanguria, Tetralanguroides)
- Tomolanguria Huang, 2020[7]
- Trapezidera Motschulsky, 1860[6]
- Trapezidistes Fowler, 1887[6] (=Chirolanguria, Lacertobelus)
References
- 1 2 3 "Languriini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2026-06-16.
- ↑ "Languriini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ Borror, Donald J. and Richard E. White. A Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 1970. p. 175
- 1 2 3 "Tribus Languriini". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2026-06-16.
- 1 2 3 "Languriini Hope, 1840". BioLib. Retrieved 2026-06-16.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 Leschen, Richard A.B. & Węgrzynowicz, Piotr (1998): Generic catalogue and taxonomic status of Languriidae (Cucujoidea). Ann.Zool. 48(3/4): 221-243. PDF fulltext
- 1 2 "Languriini Hope, 1841". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
Further reading
- Leschen, Richard A. B. (2003). Erotylidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) phylogey and review. Fauna of New Zealand. Vol. 47. Manaaki Whenua Press. ISBN 978-0-478-09350-6. ISSN 0111-5383.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
- LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.
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