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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Family Mycetaeidae

Rotting tree dweller 22 (beetle) - Mycetaea subterranea Rotting tree dweller 22 (beetle) - Mycetaea subterranea Mycetaea subterranea
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Coccinellid group)
Family Mycetaeidae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
used to be treated in Endomychidae as a subfamily
Explanation of Names
Mycetaeidae Jacquelin du Val 1857
Numbers
a single (subcosmopolitan) species in our area, 2 genera total(1)(2)
Range
native to the Old World; Mycetaea now subcosmopolitan, another genus in se. Europe/Caucasus(1)
Works Cited
1.An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae)
Shockley et al. 2009. Zootaxa 1999: 1-113.
2.Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)
Robertson J.A., Ślipiński A., Moulton M., Shockley F.W., Giorgi A., Lord N.P., McKenna D.D., Tomaszewska W., Forrester J. ... 2015. Syst. Entomol. doi: 10.1111/syen.12138.