Erotinae is a subfamily of net-winged beetles in the family

Lycidae The Lycidae are a family in the beetle order Coleoptera, members of which are commonly called net-winged beetles. These beetles are cosmopolitan, being found in Nearctic, Palearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, and Australian ecoregions ...

. There are about 10 genera and 19 described species in Erotinae.

Genera

* '' Adoceta'' Bourgeois, 1882 * '' Benibotarus'' Kono, 1932 * ''

Dictyoptera Dictyoptera (from Greek δίκτυον ''diktyon'' "net" and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing") is an insect superorder that includes two extant orders of polyneopterous insects: the order Blattodea (termites and cockroaches together) and the or ...

'' Latreille, 1829 * '' Eropterus'' Green, 1951 * ''

Eros Eros (, ; ) is the Greek god of love and sex. The Romans referred to him as Cupid or Amor. In the earliest account, he is a primordial god, while in later accounts he is the child of Aphrodite. He is usually presented as a handsome young ma ...

'' Newman, 1838 * '' Erotides'' Waterhouse, 1879 * '' Greenarus'' * '' Lopheros'' Leconte, 1881 * '' Platycis'' Thomson, 1864 * '' Punicealis'' Kazantsev, 1990

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, 779–1006. * Miller, Richard S. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 59. Lycidae Laporte 1836". ''American Beetles'', vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 174–178.

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