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Family Tetratomidae - Polypore Fungus Beetles

Polypore fungus beetle - Penthe obliquata

Seeking conformation - Eucinetidae - Eustrophopsis brunneimarginatus

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 Tetratomidae (Polypore Fungus Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

used to be treated under Melandryidae

Explanation of Names

Tetratomidae Billberg 1820

see Tetratoma

Numbers

5 subfamilies, with 26 spp. in 10 genera north of Mexico, ca. 155 spp. in 13 genera worldwide(1)(2)

Overview of our fauna

Family Tetratomidae

Subfamily Tetratominae Tetratoma

Subfamily Piseninae Pisenus · Triphyllia

Subfamily Penthinae Penthe

Subfamily Hallomeninae Hallomenus

Subfamily Eustrophinae

Tribe Eustrophini Eustrophopsis · Eustrophus · Synstrophus

Tribe Holostrophini Holostrophus · Pseudoholostrophus

Range

worldwide and throughout NA

Habitat

forested areas; found mostly under fungus-grown bark and in softer shelf fungi(1)

Food

mostly fruiting bodies of hymenomycete fungi, esp. Polyporaceae and Tricholomataceae; adults usually on the surface, larvae bore inside(1)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.

Contributed by Cotinis on 1 July, 2004 - 4:24pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 18 February, 2015 - 12:09pm

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