Taxonomic review of the Cleridae (Coleoptera) in Korea (Part 1): Clerinae Latreille, 1802

Abstract

A taxonomic review of six genera of Korean Clerinae is presented. Eleven species, including Stigmatium pilosellum (Gorham, 1878), a new Korean record, are reported in this paper. A key to the Korean species and genera, diagnoses, whole‐body photographs of adults, and illustrations of diagnostic characters are provided.

Taxonomic review of the Cleridae (Coleoptera) in Korea (Part 3): Korynetinae, Tarsosteninae and Tillinae

“…According to Lawrence and Newton (1995), the Korean Cleridae is divided into five subfamilies (Clerinae Latreille, Enopliinae Gistel, Korynetinae Laporte, Tarsosteninae Jacquelin du Val and Tillinae Leach). Of these, two subfamilies (Clerinae and Enopliinae) have already been reported (Kim & Jung, 2006a,b), and three subfamilies (Korynetinae, Tarsosteninae and Tillinae) containing eight species and six genera are reported in this paper.…”

Taxomomic review of Cleridae (Coleoptera) in Heilongjiang Province with one new record species from China

“…The family, Cleridae, currently contains approximately 300 genera, almost 4 000 described species in the world (Kim and Jung 2006a), and about 150 species have been known from China to date (Xie and Zhang 1993;Hua 2002). Both larvae and adults of most species are known as predators of other insects, while some are known as important pests of stored products.…”