Silis

Charpentier, 1825

Species Guides

Silis carmelita
Silis crucialis
Silis difficilis(Hardy Soldier Beetle)
Silis lutea
Silis pallida
Silis percomis
Silis spathulata
Silis spinigera

Silis is a of soldier beetles in the Cantharidae, established by Charpentier in 1825. The genus contains at least 80 described distributed across the Northern Hemisphere, with records from Colombia, Denmark, and Norway. Soldier beetles in this genus are soft-bodied, elongated beetles with flexible . They are active or pollen feeders as .

Silis carmelita by (c) Trevor Van Loon, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Trevor Van Loon. Used under a CC-BY license.

Silis spathulata by no rights reserved, uploaded by Nick Bédard. Used under a CC0 license.

Silis by no rights reserved, uploaded by Jean-Paul Boerekamps. Used under a CC0 license.

Pronunciation

How to pronounce Silis: /ˈsiːlɪs/

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Distribution

Northern Hemisphere; documented from Colombia (CO), Denmark (DK), and Norway (NO) based on GBIF occurrence records.

Misconceptions

The abbreviation 'SILIS' is used in analytical chemistry to mean 'Stable Isotope Labeled Internal Standard,' which has no relation to this . This unrelated usage appears in mass spectrometry literature concerning yeast metabolomics and siRNA quantification.

Sources and further reading

BugGuide
GBIF taxonomy match
iNaturalist taxon
NCBI Taxonomy
Catalogue of Life
Exploration of Yeast Species Suitable for Preparation of Stable Isotope-Labeled Internal Standards Extracts (SILIS).
Development of an LC-MS/MS assay to analyze a lipid-conjugated siRNA by solid phase extraction (SPE) in mouse plasma and tissue using a stable isotope labeled internal standard (SILIS).