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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles (Tenebrionoidea) » Ironclad Beetles (Zopheridae)

Family Zopheridae - Ironclad Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Phellopsis obcordata - Phellopsis porcata Phloeodes sp. - Phloeodes plicatus Aulonium sp. (?♀ tuberculatum) - Aulonium tuberculatum Synchita fuliginosa 012612Beetle2 - Microsicus parvulus Cylindrical Bark Beetle - Microsicus parvulus Just a Dash - Colydium lineola Unknown Coleoptera - Synchita adventive-or-new
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea (Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles)
Family Zopheridae (Ironclad Beetles)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
includes Monommatinae and Colydiinae that used to be treated as separate families
Numbers
>110 spp. in 37 genera in our area, ~1,700 spp. in almost 200 genera worldwide(1)
Overview of our fauna:
Family ZOPHERIDAE
Subfamily Zopherinae
Tribe Usechini Usechus, Usechimorpha
Tribe Phellopsini Phellopsis
Tribe Pycnomerini Pycnomerus
Tribe Zopherini Zopherus, Phloeodes, Sesaspis
Subfamily Monommatinae
Aspathines, Hyporhagus
Subfamily Colydiinae
Tribe Adimerini Monoedus
Tribe Colydiini Aulonium, Colydium
Tribe Rhagoderini Rhagodera
Tribe Nematidiini Nematidium
Tribe Synchitini Acolobicus, Bitoma, Colobicus, Coxelus, Denophoelus, Endeitoma, Eucicones, Eudesma, Lasconotus, Lobogestoria, Lyreus, Megataphrus, Microprius, Microsicus, Namunaria, Paha, Phloeonemus, Pseudocorticus, Stephaniolus, Synchita
Identification
online key to spp. and photo gallery in(1)
Range
worldwide (most diverse in the Neotropics and Australasia) and throughout NA except northernmost parts(1)
Works Cited
1.Ironclad ID: Tool for diagnosing ironclad and cylindrical bark beetles (Coleoptera: Zopheridae) of North America north of Mexico
Contributed by Cotinis on 12 August, 2004 - 1:59pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 19 September, 2011 - 7:53am

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