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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Trogossitidae

Family Trogossitidae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · See Also · Works Cited

bark-gnawing beetle - Tenebroides laticollis

Temnoscheila.... - Temnoscheila chlorodia

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cleroidea

Family Trogossitidae

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

split (again!) per (1); the genera of our fauna formerly treated under Peltinae have been reassigned as follows:

former Lophocaterini (Eronyxa · Grynocharis · Lophocateres · Lycoptis) →to Lophocateridae; Peltis →to Peltidae; Thymalus →to Thymalidae

Explanation of Names

Trogossitidae Latreille 1802

Numbers

47 spp. in 7 genera of 2 subfamilies in our area, ~330 spp. in 28 genera of 4 subfamilies total(2)(1)

Genera of our fauna:

Subf. Calitinae Calitys

Subf. Trogossitinae Airora · Corticotomus · Euschaefferia · Nemozoma · Temnoscheila · Tenebroides

Size

5-22 mm (exotic spp. up to 50 mm)(3)

Identification

keys in(4)

mostly cylindrical or slightly flattened subcortical beetles

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(2); nearly half of the described spp. are in S. America(5)

Habitat

Forests; under bark or on bracket fungi; a few spp. in stored products

Food

Many are predatory on other beetles and their larvae

Their antennae detect odors that guide them to the best hunting grounds.(6)

See Also

some lookalikes from other superfamilies:

Works Cited

1.	Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia) Gimmel M.L., Bocakova M., Gunter N.L., Leschen R.A.B. 2019. Sys. Entomol. 44: 527-558.

2.	Synopsis of the described Coleoptera of the world

3.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

4.	A revision of the Trogossitidae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Cleroidea) J.R. Barron. 1971. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 75: 1-143.

5.	Coleoptera, Beetles; Morphology and Systematics vol. 2 Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence. 2010. De Gruyter.

6.	Hidden Company that Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips James B. Nardi. 2023. Princeton University Press.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 11 March, 2005 - 9:13am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov, roar, Marci Hess
Last updated 24 September, 2023 - 10:47am

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