Mauroniscidae

Mauroniscidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Cleroidea
Family:	Mauroniscidae; Majer, 1995

Mauroniscidae is a family of soft-winged flower beetles in the order Coleoptera, formerly included in the family Melyridae. There are presently five or six genera and roughly 30 described species in Mauroniscidae.^[1]^[2]

Genera[]

Amecomycter Majer, 1995
Mauroniscus Bourgeois, 1911
Mecomycter Horn, 1882
Mectemycor Majer, 1995
Scuromanius Majer, 1995

Incertae sedis in Mauroniscidae[]

Dasyrhadus Fall, 1910^[3]

References[]

^ "Mauroniscidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
^ Mayor, A.J., Chaboo, C.S. (2015) Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A survey of the families. Mauroniscidae Majer, 1994. J. Kansas Ent. Soc. 88: 215-216.
^ Gimmel, Matthew L.; Bocakova, Milada; Gunter, Nicole L.; Leschen, Richard A.B. (2019). "Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)". Systematic Entomology. 44 (3): 527–558. doi:10.1111/syen.12338.

Further reading[]

Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
Bouchard, P.; Bousquet, Y.; Davies, A.; Sikes, D. (2013). "Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska". ZooKeys (360): 1–44. doi:10.3897/zookeys.360.4742. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3867111. PMID 24363590.
Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38811. ISBN 9780665070778.
LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.
Majer, Karel (1995). "A review of the classification of the Melyridae and related families (Coleoptera, Cleroidea)". Entomologica Basiliensia. 17: 319–390. ISSN 0253-2484.
Majer, Karel (1995). "Revision of the family Mauroniscidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cleroidea)". Entomologische Abhandlungen (Dresden). 57: 57–89.

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[bugguide-1] "Mauroniscidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-01-19.

[2] Mayor, A.J., Chaboo, C.S. (2015) Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A survey of the families. Mauroniscidae Majer, 1994. J. Kansas Ent. Soc. 88: 215-216.

[Gimmel_et_al_2019-3] Gimmel, Matthew L.; Bocakova, Milada; Gunter, Nicole L.; Leschen, Richard A.B. (2019). "Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)". Systematic Entomology. 44 (3): 527–558. doi:10.1111/syen.12338.

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