LYCIDAE Laporte, 1836
(net-winged beetles)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Platycis minutus a net-winged beetle					Species		26 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	LYCIDAE (net-winged beetles)
Superfamily	ELATEROIDEA (a superfamily of beetles)
Series	Elateriformia (click beetles and relatives)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

LYCIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Eversham, B.	2006	Cantharidae - keys to the adults of the British species	http://www.wildlifebcnp.org/ecology-resources.htm
	Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.)	1979	Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 6: Diversicornia	Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 6, 366pp, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld

LYCIDAE (net-winged beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for LYCIDAE (net-winged beetles)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for LYCIDAE (net-winged beetles)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

LYCIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)