Silinae

{{short description|Subfamily of beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Soldier Beetle - Ditemnus bidentatus, Jones Preserve, Washington, Virginia.jpg

| image_caption = Ditemnus bidentatus

| taxon = Silinae

| authority = Mulsant, 1862

}}

Silinae is a subfamily of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae. There are about 6 genera and more than 180 described species in Silinae.

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Genera

These six genera belong to the subfamily Silinae:

References

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{{Cite web| title=Silinae Report

| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=678588

| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System

| accessdate=2019-09-23

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{{Cite web| title=Silinae subfamily Information

| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/312206

| website=BugGuide.net

| accessdate=2019-09-23

}}

{{Cite journal

| title = Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)

| date = 2011

| last1 = Bouchard | first1 = Patrice

| last2 = Bousquet | first2 = Yves

| last3 = Davies | first3 = Anthony E.

| last4 = Alonso-Zarazaga | first4 = Miguel A.

| last5 = Lawrence | first5 = John F.

| last6 = Lyal | first6 = Chris H. C.

| last7 = Newton | first7 = Alfred F.

| last8 = Reid | first8 = Chris A. M.

| last9 = Schmitt | first9 = Michael

| last10 = Ślipiński | first10 = S. Adam

| last11 = Smith | first11 = Andrew B. T.

| display-authors = 4

| journal = ZooKeys

| issue = 88| pages = 1–972

| url = https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4001

| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.88.807

| pmc=3088472

| pmid=21594053

| doi-access = free

}}

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite journal

| title = The Cantharidae of Eastern Canada and Northeastern United States

| date = 2014

| last1 = Pelletier | first1 = G.

| last2 = Hébert | first2 = C.

| journal = Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification

| volume = 25| pages = 1–246

| doi = 10.3752/cjai.2014.25

| doi-access = free

}}

  • {{Cite book

| title = American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea

| date = 2002

| last1 = Ramsdale | first1 = Alistair S.

| editor-last1 = Arnett | editor-first1 = Ross H. Jr.

| editor-last2 = Thomas | editor-first2 = Michael C.

| editor-last3 = Skelley | editor-first3 = Paul E.

| editor-last4 = Frank | editor-first4 = J. Howard

| publisher = CRC Press

| chapter = Family 64: Cantharidae| pages = 202–218

| isbn = 978-0-8493-0954-0

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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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