Classification of the Coleoptera of North America

Abstract

A revised edition of the work originally issued as Nos. 136 & 265 (1861-62, 1873) of Sm. Misc. Coll. The introduction gives a sketch of the Orders of Insects, and of the external characters of Coleoptera, with remarks on the families. The bulk of the work consists of an elaborate sub-division of the Coleoptera into two primary divisions, Coleoptera (genuina) and Rhynchophora ; then into "complexes," "series," families, subfamilies, tribes, groups, and genera. A synopsis of the classification is here appended, as low as families (those not represented in N. America being placed last, in brackets). COLEOPTERA (GENUINA). ISOMERA. ADEPHAGA: Cicindelidae, Carabidae, Amphizoidae, Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, (Pelobiidae). CLAVICORNIA: Hydrophilidae, Platypsyllidae, Leptinidae, Silphidae, Scydmaenidae, Pselaphidae, Staphylinidae, Trichopterygidae, Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriidae, Scaphidiidae, Phalacridae, Corylophidae, Coccinellidae, Endomychidae, Erotylidae Colydiidae Rhyssodidae, Cucujidae, Cryptophagidae, Mycetophagidae, Dermestidae, Histeridae, Nitidulidae, Trogositidae, Monotomidae, Lathiridiidae, Derodontidae, Byrrhidae, Georyssidae, Parnidae, Heteroceridae, (Paussidae, Gnostidae, Hypocephalidae, Thorictidae). SERRICORNIA: Dascyllidae, Rhipidoceridae, Elateridae, Throscidae, Buprestidae, Lampyridae, Malachiidae, Cleridae, Ptinidae, Cupesidae, Lymexylidae, Cioidae, Sphindidae. LAMELLICORNIA: Lucanidae, Scarabaeidae. PHYTOPHAGA: Spondylidae, Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae, Bruchidae. HETEROMERA. Tenebrionidae, AEgialitidae, Cistelidae, Othniidae, Lagriidae, Monommatidae, Melandryidae, Pythidae, OEdemeridae, Cephaloidae, Mordellidae, Anthicidae, Pyrochroidae, Meloidae, Rhipidophoridae, Stylopidae, (Trictenotomidae, Nilionidae). RHYNCHOPHORA. Rhinomaceridae, Rhynchitidae, Attelabidae, Byrsopidae, Otiorrhynchidae, Curculionidae, Brenthidae, Calandridae, Scolytidae, Anthribidae, (Aglycideridae, Amycteridae, Brachyceridae, Belidae). Appendix ii. contains a bibliographical index, by S. Henshaw to publications treating specially of N. American Coleoptera. For review, see A. Matthews, Ann. N. H. (5) xii, pp. 167-172.