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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Cucujoidea » Pleasing Fungus Beetles (Erotylidae)

Family Erotylidae - Pleasing Fungus Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · See Also · Works Cited
Megalodacne heros Pleasing fungus beetle - Triplax thoracica Dasydactylus cnici Schaeffer - Dasydactylus cnici Beetle - Gibbifer californicus Toramus chamaeropis (Schaeffer) - Toramus chamaeropis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
Family Erotylidae (Pleasing Fungus Beetles)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
includes Lizard Beetles, formerly treated as a separate family Languriidae but currently split into a number of groups placed into various subfamilies of Erotylidae
This site follows the classification of Węgrzynowicz (2002)(1)
Explanation of Names
Greek erotilos 'sweetheart, darling' (diminutive from eros)(2)
Numbers
>80 spp. in 20 genera in our area, ca. 3,600 spp. worldwide(3)
Size
2-22 mm
Identification
Online key to NA genera: see(4)
Overview of our fauna:
Family EROTYLIDAE
Subfamily Xenoscelinae
Genera Cryptophilus, Toramus, Pharaxonotha, Hapalips, Loberus

Subfamily Erotylinae
Tribe Dacnini
Genera Dacne, Microsternus

Tribe Languriini
Genera Acropteroxys, Dasydactylus, Languria, Langurites

Tribe Erotylini
Genus Gibbifer

Tribe Tritomini
Genera Ischyrus, Triplax, Hirsutotriplax, Tritoma, Pseudischyrus, Mycotretus, Haematochiton

Tribe Encaustini
Genus Megalodacne
Range
worldwide and throughout NA except far north; most diverse in warmer climates, esp. in the tropics
See Also
Endomychidae, Nitidulidae, Tenebrionidae
Works Cited
1.Morphology, phylogeny and classification of the family Erotylidae based on adult characters (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)
By Piotr Węgrzynowicz
2.The Century Dictionary: an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language
3.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)
4.Pleasing Fungus Beetles of North America: Family Erotylidae, by Paul E. Skelley
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Phillip Harpootlian, Tim Moyer, v belov
Last updated 22 March, 2012 - 5:47pm

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