Macratriinae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Anthicidae
Subfamilia: Macratriinae
Tribus: Macratriini - †Camelomorphini
[list of tribus after Kirejtshuk & Azar (2008)]
Overview of genera

Macratria – †Camelomorpha – †Protomacratria

[list of genera after Kirejtshuk & Azar (2008)]
Name

Macratriinae LeConte, 1862
References

Kirejtshuk, A.G. & Azar, D. 2008. New taxa of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Lebanese amber with evolutionary and systematic comments. Alavesia 2: 15–46. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Macratriinae is a subfamily of antlike flower beetles in the family Anthicidae. There are at least 2 genera and more than 30 described species in Macratriinae.[1][2][3][4]
Macratria murina

Genera

These two genera belong to the subfamily Macratriinae:

Macratria Newman, 1838
Thambospasta Werner, 1974

References

"Macratriinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Macratriinae subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
Chandler, D. S.; Nardi, G.; Telnov, D. (2004). "Nomenclatural Notes on the Palaearctic Anthicidae" (PDF). Mitteilungen des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins. 29.

Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.

Further reading

Chandler, Donald S. (2002). "Family 117: Anthicidae Latreille, 1819". In Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J. Howard (eds.). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 549–558. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.
LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.