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Family Leiodidae - Round Fungus Beetles

Colon (Myloechus) schwarzi Hatch - Colon schwarzi

Agathidium fawcettae Miller & Wheeler - Agathidium fawcettae

Agathidium rubellum Fall - Agathidium rubellum

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)

Superfamily Staphylinoidea (Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles)

Family Leiodidae (Round Fungus Beetles)

Other Common Names

Small Carrion Beetles, Mammal Nest Beetles

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Anisotomidae, Catopidae, Cholevidae, Colonidae, Leptinidae, Leptodiridae, Platypsyllidae

Explanation of Names

Leiodidae Fleming 1821

Numbers

~3500 spp. in ~340 genera worldwide, over 350 spp. in >30 genera in our area (incl. >130 spp. in Canada+Alaska) placed in 5 subfamilies(1)(2)(3)(4)

Overview of our faunaTaxa not yet in the guide are marked (*)

Family Leiodidae

Subfamily Coloninae Colon

Subfamily Catopocerinae

Tribe Glacicavicolini Glacicavicola

Tribe Catopocerini *Catopocerus · Pinodytes

Subfamily Leiodinae

Tribe Sogdini Triarthron · Hydnobius · *Stereus · *Sogda · Kalohydnobius · Macrohydnobius · Platyhydnobius

Tribe Leiodini Anogdus · Cyrtusa · *Ecarinosphaerula · *Isoplastus · Leiodes · Liocyrtusa · *Lionothus · Zeadolopus

Tribe Pseudoleiodini *Cainosternum · Colenis

Tribe Scotocryptini Aglyptinus

Tribe Agathidiini Agathidium · Anisotoma · Gelae · *Stetholiodes

Subfamily Cholevinae

Tribe Leptodirini Platycholeus

Tribe Anemadini Nemadus · *Dissochaetus · *Neoeocatops

Tribe Cholevini Catops · Catoptrichus · Prionochaeta · Sciodrepoides

Tribe Ptomaphagini Ptomaphagus

Subfamily Platypsyllinae Leptinillus · Leptinus · Platypsyllus

Identification

Some European galleries provide samples of the fauna fairly representative of the Holarctic region and give a good idea of what these beetles look like:

Leiodidae Deutschlands

Polish fauna

Cholevinae and Leiodinae of Germany

Range

Across the continent(1)

Habitat

litter, various decayed matter, vertebrate and ant nests/burrows (some even ectoparasites of mammals), caves/caverns, various fungi (incl. subterranean ones) and slime molds (Myxomycetes)(1)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	Newton A.F., Thayer M.K. Catalog of higher taxa of Staphyliniformia and genera and subgenera of Staphylinoidea [online]

3.	Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the Catopocerini (eyeless soil fungivore beetles) of North America... Peck S.B., Cook J. 2011. Zootaxa 3077: 1–118.

4.	Systematics, distributions, and bionomics of the Neoeocatops gen. nov. and Nemadus of North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae...) Peck S.B., Cook J. 2007. The Canadian Entomologist 139: 87-117.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 29 March, 2005 - 4:05pm
Additional contributions by Jeff Gruber, v belov
Last updated 19 February, 2015 - 2:17pm

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