Languriini

{{Short description|Tribe of beetles}}

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| image = Acropteroxys gracilis P1060804a.jpg

| image_caption = Acropteroxys gracilis

| taxon = Languriini

| authority = Hope, 1840

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Languriini is a tribe of beetles, known as lizard beetles, in the family Erotylidae, subfamily Languriinae. Lizard beetles are commonly found on leaves or flowers, and their larvae bore into plant stems. Adults are generally long and parallel-sided with a red thorax.Borror, Donald J. and Richard E. White. A Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 1970. p. 175 There are about 5 genera and at least 20 described species in Languriini.

ITIS Taxonomic note:

  • Authorship corrected to Hope 1840, per Bouchard et al., (2011:357), 'family-group name previously attributed to Crotch (1873c) by Pakaluk et al. (1994) and subsequent authors'.

File:Acropteroxys gracilis.jpg

File:Lizard beetle Languria mozardi (15927751304).jpg

Genera

These five genera belong to the tribe Languriini:

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

References

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{{Cite web| title=Languriini Report

| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=998540

| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System

| accessdate=2018-03-26

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{{Cite web| title=Catalogue of Life

| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/

| accessdate=2018-03-26

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{{Cite web| title=GBIF

| url=https://www.gbif.org/

| accessdate=2018-03-26

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{{Cite web| title=Languriini Tribe Information

| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/374685

| website=BugGuide.net

| accessdate=2018-03-26

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite book

| title = Erotylidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) phylogey and review

| date = 2003

| last1 = Leschen | first1 = Richard A. B.

| journal =

| publisher = Manaaki Whenua Press

| series = Fauna of New Zealand| volume = 47

| isbn = 978-0-478-09350-6

| issn = 0111-5383

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  • {{Cite book

| title = Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea

| date = 2007

| editor-last1 = Lobl | editor-first1 = I.

| editor-last2 = Smetana | editor-first2 = A.

| publisher = Apollo Books

| isbn = 978-8788757675

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  • {{Cite book

| title = Classification of the Coleoptera of North America

| date = 1861

| last1 = LeConte | first1 = J. L.

| publisher = Smithsonian Institution

| series = Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections| volume = 3| issue = 136

| isbn = 978-0665100550

| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732

| doi = 10.5962/bhl.title.38459

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