Abraeinae is a subfamily of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are at least 20 genera and at least 440 described species in Abraeinae.
Many of the groups are tiny, with adults less than 2 mm in length. These beetles are diverse in form with a small oval specie that separates them from all the other histerids except for the Bacaniini. The Abraeinae lacks a separate basal piece of the aedeagus.
Genera
- Abaeletes <small>Cooman, 1940</small>
- Abraeus <small>Leach, 1817</small>
- Acritodes <small>Cooman, 1935</small>
- Acritomorphus <small>Wenzel, 1944</small>
- Acritus <small>J. L. LeConte, 1853</small>
- Aeletes <small>Horn, 1873</small>
- Aeletodes <small>Gomy, 1977</small>
- Anophtaeletes <small>Olexa, 1976</small>
- Arizonacritus <small>Gomy & Warner, 2013</small>
- Chaetabraeus <small>Portevin, 1929</small>
- Eubrachium <small>Wollaston, 1862</small>
- Halacritus <small>Schmidt, 1893</small>
- Iberacritus <small>Yélamos, 1994</small>
- Mascarenium <small>Gomy, 1978</small>
- Phloeolister <small>Bickhardt, 1916</small>
- Plegaderus <small>Erichson, 1834</small>
- Pleuroleptus <small>G. Müller, 1937</small>
- Spelaeabraeus <small>Moro, 1957</small>
- Spelaeacritus <small>Jeannel, 1934</small>
- Teretriosoma <small>Horn, 1873</small>
- Teretrius <small>Erichson, 1834</small>
- Therondus <small>Gomy, 1974</small>
- Trypolister <small>Bickhardt, 1916</small>
- Xiphonotus <small>Lacordaire, 1854</small>
References
- 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, 779âÂÂ1006.
- Mazur, Slawomir (1997). "A world catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea)". Genus, International Journal of Invertebrate Taxonomy (Supplement), 373.
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 .
- 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.
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