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Family Silvanidae - Silvanid Flat Bark Beetles

Representative Images

sil*vanid? - Silvanoprus angusticollis beetle - Silvanus bidentatus Beetle 2 - Nausibius major Sylvanid Flat Bark Beetle - Uleiota sp? - Uleiota Silvanidae, dorsal - Uleiota dubia - male Unknown Beetle - Oryzaephilus mercator small brown beetle, spined pronotum - Silvanoprus angusticollis slender tan beetle with black head - Telephanus atricapillus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Cucujid series)
Family Silvanidae (Silvanid Flat Bark Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

until recently treated as a subfamily of Cucujidae(1)

Explanation of Names

Silvanidae Kirby 1837

Numbers

32 spp. in 14 genera in our area(1), ~500 spp. in ~60 genera total(2)
Overview of our faunaFamily Silvanidae
Subfamily BRONTINAE
Tribe Brontini Uleiota · Dendrophagus
Tribe Telephanini Cryptamorpha · Telephanus
Subfamily SILVANINAE Nausibius · Oryzaephilus · Silvanus · Pensus · Cathartosilvanus · Silvanoprus · Monanus · Ahasverus · Cathartus · Airaphilus

Size

1.2-15 mm (worldwide)(3)

Range

Worldwide; most diverse in the tropics(1)

Food

Most appear to be fungivorous, but several are important grain pests(1)

Print References

(4)

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.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.Coleoptera, Beetles; Morphology and Systematics vol. 2
Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence. 2010. De Gruyter.
4.The flat bark beetles of Florida (Coleoptera: Silvanidae, Passandridae, Laemophloeidae)
Thomas M.C. 1993. Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas 15: viii+93 pp.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 17 March, 2005 - 12:06am
Additional contributions by Stephen_WV, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 July, 2022 - 11:29am

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