Histerinae

Histerinae
Platysoma angustatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Histeridae
Subfamily:	Histerinae Gyllenhal, 1808
Tribes
Exosternini Bickhardt, 1914 Histerini Gyllenhal, 1808 Hololeptini Hope, 1840 Omalodini Kryzhanovskij, 1972 Platysomatini Bickhardt, 1914
Diversity
at least 140 genera

Margarinotus purpurascens

Histerinae is a subfamily of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are more than 140 genera and 2,000 described species in Histerinae.

See also

• List of Histerinae genera

Further reading

• Bousquet, Yves; Laplante, Serge (2006). Coleoptera Histeridae. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada. Vol. part 24. NRC Press. ISBN 978-0-660-19399-1. ISSN 0706-7313.
• Kovarik, Peter W.; Caterino, Michael S. (2001). "Family 15: Histeridae". In Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C. (eds.). American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press. pp. 212–227. ISBN 978-0-8493-1925-9.
• 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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.
• Majka, Christopher G. (2008). "Contributions to the knowledge of Atlantic Canadian Histeridae (Coleoptera)". ZooKeys (2): 189–202. doi:10.3897/zookeys.2.3.
• Mazur, Slawomir (2011). A Concise Catalogue of the Histeridae (Insecta: Coleoptera). WULS - SGGW Press. ISBN 978-83-7583-3171.

External links

• Media related to Histerinae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Histerinae at Wikispecies