Belongs within: Elateroidea.
Contains: Trichalus, Calochrominae, Diluticolinae, Lycinae.
The Lycidae are a group of soft-bodied beetles with narrow, dehiscent elytra that are generally coloured in contrasting aposematic patterns of reddish yellow and black. The distasteful lycids often function as models in mimicry complexes.
<==Lycidae [Lycides]B14 |--+--DiluticolinaeK02 | `--Leptolycinae [Lyropaeinae]K02 | | i. s.: LeptolycusB14 | |--+--Antennolycus constrictusKB11 | | `--Microlyropaeus dembickyiKB11 | `--+--Alyculus kurbatoviKB11 | `--Lyropaeus biguttatusKB11, K02 `--+--LycinaeB14 `--+--Thonalmus Bourg. 1883KB11, FS90 | |--T. bicolor Linné 1763 [incl. T. denominatus Chv. 1870, T. militaris]FS90 | |--T. dominicensis Chv. 1870 [incl. T. blandus]FS90 | `--T. hubbardiKB11 `--+--LycoprogenthesKB11 `--+--Libnetis granicollisKB11 `--LyponiaKB11 |--L. brevicollis Fairmaire 1889F89 `--L. quadricollisKB11 Lycidae incertae sedis: Dumbrellia Lea 1909L09 |--D. brevicornis (Lea 1898) [=Calochromus brevicornis]L09 `--D. pilosicornis (Lea 1898) [=Calochromus pilosicornis]L09 TrichalusL09 XylobanusL09 |--X. costiferL09 |--X. gratiosusL09 |--X. obscurus Macleay 1886M86 |--X. pentagonus Bourgeois 1889B89b |--X. regularisM86 |--X. semiflabellatus Thoms. 1858 [incl. Lycus sulcicollis Murray 1868]B89b `--X. xanthomerus Bourgeois 1889B89b MelampyrusL09 CladophorusM86 |--C. apicalis Macleay 1886M86 |--C. ingenuusM86 |--C. longicornis Macleay 1886M86 |--C. nigrescens Macleay 1886M86 `--C. semirufus Macleay 1886M86 Pseudaplatopterus scheeleiP92 PlaterodinaeM02 |--Falsocalleros Pic 1933 [incl. Pseudoplateros Green 1951]M02 | `--F. moleculusM02 `--Plateros Bourgeois 1879 [incl. Neoceletes Leng & Shoemaker 1915]M02 |--P. phoenicurusB89a |--P. scutellaris Bourgeois 1889B89a |--P. sordidus Fairmaire 1889F89 `--P. sycophantaF89 CautiresB89b |--C. dichrocerus Bourgeois 1889B89b |--C. dondonensis Harold 1879 [incl. Lycus semiflabellatus Murray 1868]B89b |--C. inflatellus Bourgeois 1889B89b |--C. latithorax Bourgeois 1889B89b |--C. macer Bourgeois 1889B89b |--C. sulcicollis Thoms. 1858B89b `--C. unicolor Bourgeois 1889B89b CalochrominaeM02
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[B14] Bouchard, P. (ed.) 2014. The Book of Beetles: A lifesize guide to six hundred of nature’s gems. Ivy Press: Lewes (United Kingdom).
[B89a] Bourgeois, J. 1889a. Diagnoses de Lycides nouveaux ou peu connus. 6e partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 6e série 9: 225–236.
[B89b] Bourgeois, J. 1889b. Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire d’Assinie (Afrique occidentale) en juillet et août 1886. 1er mémoire. Lycides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 6e série 9: 237–246.
[F89] Fairmaire, L. 1889. Coléoptères de l’intérieur de la Chine. 5e partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 6e série 9: 5–84.
[FS90] Fleutiaux, E., & A. Sallé. 1890. Liste des coléoptères de la Guadeloupe et descriptions d’espèces nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 6e série 9: 351–484.
[K02] Kazantsev, S. 2002. A generic review of Duliticolinae, new subfamily (Coleoptera: Lycidae). Elytron 16: 5–21.
[KB11] Kundrata, R., & L. Bocak. 2011. The phylogeny and limits of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): is there a common tendency of click beetles to soft-bodiedness and neoteny? Zoologica Scripta 40: 364–378.
[L09] Lea, A. M. 1909. Revision of the Australian and Tasmanian Malacodermidae. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1909 (1): 45–251, pls 2–6.
[M86] Macleay, W. 1886. The insects of the Fly River, New Guinea, “Coleoptera”. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2, 1 (1): 136–157.
[M02] Miller, R. S. 2002. Lycidae Laporte 1836. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr, M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley & J. H. Frank (eds) American Beetles vol. 2. Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea pp. 174–178. CRC Press.
[P92] Poinar, G. O., Jr. 1992. Life in Amber. Stanford University Press: Stanford.