Prionoceridae

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: Cleroidea

Familia:Prionoceridae
Genera: Idgia – Lobonyx – Prionocerus – †Prionocerites
(collective group)
Name

Prionoceridae Lacordaire, 1857
References

Aston, P. 2011: Prionoceridae Lacordaire 1857 of Hong Kong and Guangdong Province, China (Coleoptera; Cleroidea). Hong Kong entomological bulletin, 3(1): 2-6. PDF
Geiser, M. 2007: Studies on the Prionoceridae (Coleoptera, Cleroidea). I. A new species of Prionocerus Perty, 1831 from Sumatra. Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey, 29: 167-170. ISSN: 0253-24834
Geiser, M. 2010: Studies on Prionoceridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). II. A revision of the genus Prionocerus Perty, 1831. Zootaxa, 2328: 1–48. Preview
Yang, Y.; Geiser, M.; Yang, X. 2012: A little-known beetle family in China, Prionoceridae Lacordaire, 1857 (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Entomotaxonomia, 34(2): 378–390. PDF
Lawrence, J.F.; Archibald, S.B.; Ślipiński, A. 2008: A new species of Prionoceridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea) from the Eocene of British Columbia, Canada. Annales zoologici, 58: 689-693. ISSN: 0003-4541 DOI: 10.3161/000345408X396620 PDF
Lawrence, J.F.; Leschen, R.A.B. 2010: 9.9. Prionoceridae Lacordaire, 1857. Pp. 268-271 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755 DOI: 10.1515/9783110911213.268
I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2007 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4: Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-67-6, p. 384

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Prionoceridae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD

Prionoceridae is a small family of beetles, in the suborder Polyphaga. They form a group within the cleroid beetles and were formerly treated as a subfamily (Prionocerinae) within the family Melyridae. Very little is known of their life history but most species are pollen feeders as adults and occur in large numbers during spring or the host flowering season. Larvae are predatory or feed on decomposing wood.
Description

Beetles in the family are elongate with soft elytra. The elytra are often covered with rows of hairs. The margin of the eyes are not round but notched anteriorly. The head faces forward (prognathous) and the clypeal region is produced into a short flat snout. Each of the legs have five tarsi (5-5-4 in the Oedemeridae) with simple claws and a single spur on the pro-tibia. Male Idgia and Prionocerus have a comb on the inner edge of the distal tarsal segment of the foreleg.[1] The genera Nacerdes and Xanthochroa in the family Oedemeridae and some Cantharidae bear resemblance to some of the Prionoceridae.[2]

Members of the family were formerly included as a subfamily within the closely related Melyridae (the genus Lobonyx in Dasytinae). The fossil record of Prionoceridae has been recorded from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou beds of China (Idgiaites jurassicus), the Cenomanian Burmese amber (Cretaidgia burmensis)[3] and Ypresian Hat creek Amber from Canada (Prionocerites tattriei).[4][5][6]
Idgia sp. from Sri Lanka
Diversity

There are around 150 species in three genera; Idgia Laporte, 1836 (Palaeotropical), Lobonyx Jacquelin du Val, 1859[7] (mostly Palaearctic), and Prionocerus Perty, 1831.[8][9]

The following is a partial list of the species that have been described (the generic placement and validity are unverified and likely to be out of date):

†Cretaidgia Zhao, Liu & Yu, 2021[3]

†C. burmensis Zhao, Liu & Yu, 2021

Idgia Laporte, 1836

I. abdominalis Pic, 1920
I. abyssinica Champion, 1919
I. amplipennis Pic, 1923
I. andrewesi Bourgeois, 1907
I. angustata Champion, 1919
I. apicalis (Gerstacker, 1871)
I. apicata Gorham, 1895
I. arabica (Walker, 1871)
I. ardesica Pic, 1908
I. assimilis (Hope, 1831)
I. asirensis Wittmer, 1980
I. atricornis Pic, 1920
I. bagorensis Pic, 1920
I. bakeri Pic, 1920
I. belli Gorham, 1895
I. bimaculata Pic, 1910
I. caeruliventris Champion, 1919
I. cavilabris Champion, 1919
I. chloroptera Redtenbacher, 1868
I. cincta Pic, 1920
I. confusa Pic, 1920
I. costata Pic, 1920
I. costulata Pic, 1941
I. curticeps Pic, 1920
I. cyanea Pic, 1906
I. cyanocephala Champion, 1919
I. cyanipennis Pic, 1920
I. cyanura Champion, 1919
I. dasytoides Champion, 1919
I. decolor Champion, 1919
I. deusta Fairmaire, 1878
I. dichroa Champion, 1919
I. dimelaena (Walker, 1859)
I. dimidiata (Gerstacker, 1871)
I. diversiceps Pic, 1925
I. dohertyi Pic, 1912
I. dubia Gyll., 1808
I. elongaticeps Pic, 1923
I. femorata Champion, 1919
I. flavibuccis Bourgeois, 1892
I. flavicollis Redtenbacher, 1878
I. flavirostris Pascoe, 1860
I. flavithorax Pic, 1927
I. flavilabris Champion, 1919
I. flavolimbata Champion, 1919
I. foveifrons Fairmaire, 1900
I. fruhstorferi Pic, 1920
I. fulvicollis Reichenbach, 1849
I. geniculata Champion, 1919
I. gorhami Pic, 1911
I. grandis Pic, 1935
I. granulipennis Pic, 1920
I. griseolineata Pic, 1934
I. haemorrhoidalis Pic, 1906
I. hoffmanni Gressitt, 1939
I. huegeli (Redtenbacher, 1868)
I. humeralifer Pic, 1920
I. incerta Pic, 1920
I. indicola Champion, 1919
I. iriomoteana Nakane, 1980
I. javana Champion, 1919
I. laticornis Champion, 1919
I. lineata Pic, 1920
I. longicollis Pic, 1925
I. longipalpis Champion, 1919
I. longipes Pic, 1920
I. longissima Pic, 1909
I. luteipes Champion, 1919
I. luzonica Pic, 1924
I. melanocephala (Fabricius, 1781)
I. maculicornis Pic, 1925
I. maculiventris Champion, 1919
I. maindroni Pic, 1909
I. major Pic, 1908
I. marginata Champion, 1919
I. mindanaosa Pic, 1947
I. melanura Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844
I. minuta Pic, 1920
I. moupinensis Fairmaire, 1889
I. nilgirica Champion, 1919
I. nitida Champion, 1919
I. obscurimembris Pic, 1923
I. oculata Redtenbacher, 1868
I. oedemeroides Pic, 1920
I. opacipennis Pic, 1920
I. pallidicolor Pic, 1906
I. parlicularipes Pic, 1920
I. particularicornis Pic, 1939
I. plectrophora Champion, 1919
I. revoili Pic, 1920
I. rostrifera Champion, 1919
I. rouyeri Pic, 1906
I. semitecta Champion, 1919
I. stamperi Pic, 1924
I. subparallela Pic, 1920
I. terminata Cast., 1840
I. testaceipes Pic, 1908
I. thibetana (Obenberger, 1918)
I. uncigera Champion, 1919
I. ungulata Champion, 1919
I. varicornis Champion, 1919
I. varipes Champion, 1919
I. virescens Champion, 1919
I. viridivittata Champion, 1919

†Idgiaites

†I. jurassicus

Lobonyx Jacquelin du Val, 1859

L. aeneus (Fabricius, 1787)
L. gracilis Reitter, 1872
L. guerryi (Pic, 1920)[6]
L. thoracicus Majer, 1990

†Prionocerites Lawrence, Archibald, & Ślipiński, 2008

†P. tattriei Lawrence, Archibald, & Ślipiński, 2008[4]

Prionocerus Perty, 1831

P. bicolor Redtenbacher, 1868
P. caeruleipennis Perty, 1831
P. championi Geiser, 2010
P. malaysiacus Geiser, 2010
P. paiensis Geiser, 2010
P. opacipennis (Pic, 1920)
P. viridiflavus Geiser, 2007
P. wittmeri Geiser, 2010

References

Champion, G.C. (1919). "The Malacoderm genera Prionocerus and Idgia and their sexual characters". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9 (3): 325–372. doi:10.1080/00222931908673830.
Aston, Paul (2011). "Prionoceridae Lacordaire 1857 of Hong Kong and Guangdong Province, China (Coleoptera; Cleroidea)". Hong Kong Entomological Bulletin. 3 (1): 2–6.
Zhao, Y.; Liu, Z.; Yu, Y.; Shih, C.; Ślipiński, A.; Ren, D. (2021). "First species of Prionoceridae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Cleroidea)". Cretaceous Research. 133: Article 105118. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.105118. S2CID 245058205.
Lawrence, J.F.; Archibald, S.B.; Ślipiński, A. (2008). "A new species of Prionoceridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea) from the Eocene of British Columbia, Canada". Annales Zoologici. 58 (4): 689–693. doi:10.3161/000345408X396620. S2CID 55873252.
Liu, Zhenhua; Ślipiński, Adam; Leschen, Richard A. B.; Ren, Dong; Pang, Hong (2015). "The Oldest Prionoceridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea) from the Middle Jurassic of China". Annales Zoologici. 65 (1): 41–52. doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2015.65.1.004. S2CID 85113150.
Yuxia, Yang; Geiser, Michael; Xingk, Yang (2012). "A little-known beetle family in China, Prionoceridae Lacordaire, 1857 (Coleoptera: Cleroidea)" (PDF). Entomotaxonomia. 34 (2): 378–390.
Constantin R. (2009). "A revision of the genus Lobonyx Jacquelin du Val, 1859, of Central Asia, with the description of a new species from Nepal (Insecta: Coleoptera, Prionoceridae)". In Hartmann M, Weipert J (ed.). Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya, Band 3. Erfurt: Verein der Freunde & Förderer des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt e.V. pp. 299–311.
Geiser, Michael (2010). "Studies on Prionoceridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). II. A revision of the genus Prionocerus Perty, 1831" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2328: 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2328.1.1.
Geiser, M. (2007). "Studies on Prionoceridae (Coleoptera, Cleroidea). I. A new species of Prionocerus Perty, 1831 from Sumatra" (PDF). Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey. 29: 167–170.