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Family Mycetophagidae - Hairy Fungus Beetles

Mycetophagus sp. - Neotriphyllus confusus

Fungus Beetle? - Mycetophagus pluripunctatus

tiny beetle, Chrysomelidae? - Litargus balteatus

Litargus sexpunctatus ? - Litargus sexpunctatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Mycetophagidae (Hairy Fungus Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

world genera revised in(1), with some changes affecting our fauna

Explanation of Names

Mycetophagidae Leach 1815

Numbers

26 spp. in 5 genera in our area(2)(3), 130 spp. in 18 genera total(4)

Identification

Keys to all spp. provided in(2); most ne. species keyed and illustrated in(5)

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(3)

Remarks

An interesting example of a hairy fungus beetle on a fungus infested Harmonia axyridis

Works Cited

1.	Review of the genera of Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) with descriptions of new genera and a world generic key Lawrence J.F., Escalona H.E., Leschen R.A.B., Ślipiński A. 2014. Zootaxa 3826: 195–229.

2.	Revision of nearctic Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera) Parsons C.T. 1975. Col. Bull. 29: 93-108.

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.	Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification... Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.

5.	The Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada Majka C.G. 2010. ZooKeys 64: 9-23.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 28 November, 2005 - 1:49pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, urtica, Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 27 April, 2019 - 6:17pm

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