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Family Silvanidae - Silvanid Flat Bark Beetles

Silvanid, Another View - Cathartosilvanus imbellis Silvanid under bark - Silvanus muticus Flat Bark Beetle - Uleiota dubia - female Sawtoothed Grain Beetle - Oryzaephilus surinamensis Telephanus atricapillus Uleiota - Uleiota dubia Bark Beetle - Uleiota Mystery beetle - Psammoecus trimaculatus
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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