Net-winged Beetles (Lycidae) - 69 Species, Identification & Facts

Caenia amplicornis

Identification: Apparent male on left, female on right.

Caenia dimidiata

Identification: Similar to Calopteron terminale , but has comb-like antennae, and scutellum is black Evans notes it "has pectinate antennae in both sexes; branches on 4-10 longer at attached at based of the antennomeres in male, but shorter and arisi

Banded Net-winged Beetle

Calopteron discrepans

Identification: The anterior elytral band tends to be broad all the way to the edges (tends to taper at the edges or be narrow its entire span in C. reticulatum ). This trait is not diagnostic, but may be helpful. Sutural dark extension of the anteri

Golden Net-winged Beetle

Dictyoptera coccinata

Identification: Black venter, black spot on pronotal disc, black scutellum. ―Joe Cicero, 16.v.2013

Dictyoptera simplicipes

Identification: Note red legs and scape ( comments on photo ). Pronotum with a diamond shaped central cell

Eros humeralis

Identification: Quoting : Base of elytra and each side of thorax yellowish; transverse carina between the front and hind rows of cells strong, sinuate.... Resembles [Benibotarus] thoracicus ) in color, but distinguished by having six cells on thorax,

Erotides sculptilis

Identification: Elytra black/piceous with 4 ridges each; pronotum with prominent ridged cells.

Leptoceletes basalis

Identification: Antennae comb-like with branches arising from base of antennomere (male) or flat and serrate (female)

Leptoceletes dehiscens

Identification: Det. M. A. Ivie, 2015 female is unk. Type Locality: Chisos Mountains of west Texas, male coll'ed July 17, 1940 by D.J. and J.N. Knull, spmn in the OSUC.

Leptoceletes pallidus

Identification: Det. M. A. Ivie, 2015 female is unk. Type series: six males coll'ed in the Chisos Mountains, Brewster Co. of west Texas, July 4-22, 1940 by D.J. and J.N. Knull. Holotype in the OSUC.

Lucaina greeni

Identification: CA to NV & TX ( Cavan & Jones 2020 )

Lycus arizonensis

Identification: nearly identical to Neolycus fernandezi ( Lycus fernandezi ) but lacks the "notch" in the apical black spot (and is typically bigger).

Lygistopterus perfacetus

Lygistopterus perfacetus (Lygistopterus perfacetus) is a species in the family Lycidae, commonly known as net-winged beetles, belonging to the order Coleoptera (Beetles). It is classified within the subfamily Calochrominae, suborder Polyphaga, superf

Macrolygistopterus ruficollis

Identification: black, elytra blueish, pronotum red

Plateros arizonensis

Identification: fulvous tip of abdomen Det. Joe Cicero, 2023

Plateros coccinicollis

Identification: Male: Pronotum pale rosy red with usually a subquadrate black spot in median third Female: Pronotal spot tending to divide both longitudinally and transversely, sometimes entirely absent

Plateros lictor

This is our commonest and most widely distributed species. (Green 1953)

Plateros modestus

Identification: As a rule modestus may be easily recognized in both sexes by its large size, broad form, and prominent discal costate of the elytra. (Green 1953)

Platycis minutus

Length 5 to 8 mm. The elytra are red or orangey-red with strongly raised longitudinal lines. The head, pronotum and legs are all black but the antennae have pale tips in this species. Similar to Pyropterus nigroruber, but that species does not have p

Pyropterus nigroruber

7.5 to 10 mm it is entirely black but with distinctive red elytra. The antennae in this species are not pale tipped . Platycis minutus is similar but has pale tipped antennae. Unless identified by a recognised expert, a photo is required. If the phot