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Family Endomychidae - Handsome Fungus Beetles
Classification Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Coccinellid group)
Family Endomychidae (Handsome Fungus Beetles)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes formerly treated to include Anamorphidae, Mycetaeidae, and Eupsilobiidae; arrangement in the Guide follows (1)
Merophysiinae used to be treated in Latridiidae
Explanation of Names Endomychidae Leach 1815 Numbers 8 subfamilies, with 45 spp. in 22 genera in our area (2)(3) and ~1800 described spp. in 130 genera worldwide (4)(5)
Overview of our faunaTaxa not yet in the guide are marked (*)
Family Endomychidae
Subfamily Pleganophorinae Trochoideus
Subfamily Xenomycetinae Xenomycetes
Groups formerly treated in Endomychidae
Size 1-10 mm, mostly 4-8 mm (2)Identification photos of a representative sample of eastern spp. provided in (6)(7)Range worldwide and across NA, with the highest diversity in tropical and subtropical areas (8)Habitat mostly under bark of dead trees with close associated with the fruiting bodies of macrofungi or in leaf litter, but some are commonly found in many other habitats, like tree holes; a few inhabit ant/termite nests or caves (9)Food spores and hyphae of various fungi, primarily macro-Basidiomycetes (Hymenomycetes and Aphyllophorales), some also on myxomycetes; host records summarized in (9); members of two exotic genera prey on scales & some other arthropods (9)Life Cycle natural history of the group summarized in (9)Internet References Endomychidae in the Strohecker Collection –- images of all the species represented in the collection of Henry F. Strohecker (1905-1988), the most influential endomychid taxonomist of the 20th century (NO LONGER AVAILABLE as of 13.viii.2015, but images mirrored here) Works Cited | 1. | Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)
Robertson J.A., Ślipiński A., Moulton M., Shockley F.W., Giorgi A., Lord N.P., McKenna D.D., Tomaszewska W., Forrester J. ... 2015. Syst. Entomol. doi: 10.1111/syen.12138. | |
| 2. | 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. |  |
| 3. | A catalog of Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. Family: Endomychidae
Strohecker H.F. 1986. USDA Agriculture handbook no. 529-98. viii + 19 pp. | |
| 8. | A synopsis of the Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) of Mexico
Arriaga-Varela E., Tomaszewska K.W., Navarrete-Heredia J.L. 2007. Zootaxa 1594: 1–38. | |
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