anthicine

comparative more anthicine · superlative most anthicine

1. biologyRelating to beetles of the subfamily Anthicinae.

   Leptaleus LaFerté Sénectère, 1849 is a small genus of anthicine Anthicini distributed in the Afrotropical, Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Telnov, unpublished data).

   2023, Semen J. Blinstein, Dmitry Telnov, Augusto Degiovanni, Andrey V. Gontarenko, “New Data on Distribution of Two Palaearctic Leptaleus Laferté-Sénectère, 1849 (Coleoptera: Anthicidae) Species With New Records and a Correction”, in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis, volume 23, number 1, →DOI, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2025, page 103 of 103-107

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   Werner (1983b) treated the anthicine fauna (as Anthicidae in the old sense) of the larger islands of the Greater Antilles, but neglected the local island distributions within the Virgin Islands.

   1996 June 29, Darren A. Pollock, Michael A. Ivie, “Anthicidae (Coleoptera) of the Virgin Islands”, in Florida Entomologist, volume 79, number 2, page 231

   The records of Microhoria and Aulacoderus from Australia by Uhmann (2000, 2007) actually belong to the anthicine genera Sahulanthicus Telnov, 2018 and Sapintus Casey, 1895 (Kejval 2017, Telnov 2018b).

   2020 March 10, Zbyněk Kejval, Donald S. Chandler, “Generic revision of the Microhoriini with new species and synonymies from the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Anthicidae)”, in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, volume 60, number 1, →DOI, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2026, page 109 of 95-154

plural anthicines

1. biologyAny ant-like flower beetle in the subfamily Anthicinae, of the family Anthicidae.

   Synonyms: monoceros beetle