Drilini

Drilidae
	Drilus flavescens (male)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Drilidae; Blanchard, 1845
Genera
	Drilus Olivier, 1790; Malacogaster Bassi, 1833; Paradrilus Kiesenwetter, 1866; Selasia Laporte, 1836;

Drilidae is a family of beetles known commonly as the false firefly beetles.^[1]

Systematics

In 2011, most of the beetles in this family were transferred to the family Elateridae as the tribe Drilini.^[2] The remaining genera, Pseudeuanoma and Euanoma, were moved to the Omalisidae.^[3]

References

^ Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Drilidae. Archived 21 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine British insects: the families of Coleoptera. Version: 25 July 2012.
^ Kundrata, R., Kobieluszova, L. and L. Bocak. (2014). A review of Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) of the Northern Levant, with description of a new species from Syria and a key to Levantine species. Zootaxa 3755(5), 457-69.
^ Kundrata, R. and 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, 364–78.

[1] Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Drilidae. Archived 21 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine British insects: the families of Coleoptera. Version: 25 July 2012.

[2] Kundrata, R., Kobieluszova, L. and L. Bocak. (2014). A review of Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) of the Northern Levant, with description of a new species from Syria and a key to Levantine species. Zootaxa 3755(5), 457-69.

[3] Kundrata, R. and 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, 364–78.

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