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Family Anthribidae - Fungus Weevils

Tiny Beetle Speck - Euxenus Fungus Weevil - Euparius marmoreus Fungus Weevil - Trigonorhinus sticticus Beetle - Anthribus nebulosus Fungus Weevil - Ormiscus Allandrus sp.? - Ischnocerus angulatus Beetle under a log, on the farm  - Eurymycter Toxonotus cornutus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea
Family Anthribidae (Fungus Weevils)
Explanation of Names
Antribidae Billberg 1820
Numbers
88 spp. in 30 genera and 17 tribes in the Nearctic, plus 30 undescribed spp. of Ormiscus and a few species in other genera(1), ~3900 spp. in >370 genera total(2)
Overview of our faunaTaxa not yet in the guide are marked (*)
Family Anthribidae
Subfamily Choraginae
Tribe *Cisanthribini *Sicanthus[figs in(1)]
Subfamily Anthribinae
Size
0.4-16 mm(3)
Identification
Head with a broad flat beak, rarely small; antennae not elbowed, most apically clubbed, sometimes absent in species with elongate antennae, mandibles large. Tibiae without spurs but in males of some genera with an apical hook or tooth. Body very variable in shape, from robust, usually brownish, very often mottled with patches of white, gray, brown or straw-colored hairs, to mite-like in shape.
Range
Throughout NA, but more diverse in the east
Habitat
adults found mostly on the larval food plants; larvae in tree twigs/branches, hard or polypore fungi, under the bark of dead/dying trees(3)
Food
Larvae feed on vegetable material

Larvae feed by boring into the decaying wood directly beneath fungus and up into the woody party of the fungus.(4)
Internet References
Works Cited
1.A review of Nearctic and some related Anthribidae (Coleoptera)
Valentine B.D. 1998. Insecta Mundi 12: 251‒296.
2.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.
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.Eastern Forest Insects
Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.