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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Round Fungus Beetles (Leiodidae)

Family Leiodidae - Round Fungus Beetles

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Print References · Works Cited
unknown - Sciodrepoides little brown beetle leg & mandibles - Macrohydnobius matthewsii - female Small Carrion Beetle - Catops Agathidium pulchrum LeConte - Agathidium pulchrum mystery beetle - Platycholeus Dissochaetus - male super round beetle - Agathidium Leiodinae, swept from low-lying vegetation
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Family Leiodidae (Round Fungus Beetles)
Other Common Names
Small Carrion Beetles, Mammal Nest Beetles
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Anisotomidae, Catopidae, Cholevidae, Colonidae, Leptinidae, Leptodiridae, Platypsyllidae
Explanation of Names
Leiodidae Fleming 1821
Numbers
~3500 spp. in ~340 genera worldwide, 382 species in 38 genera in our area(1) (incl. >130 spp. in Canada+Alaska) placed in 5 subfamilies(2)(3)(4)(5)
Overview of our faunaTaxa not yet in the guide are marked (*)
Family Leiodidae
Subfamily Catopocerinae
Tribe Glacicavicolini Glacicavicola
Tribe Catopocerini Catopocerus · Pinodytes
Subfamily Leiodinae
Tribe Sogdini Triarthron · Hydnobius · *Stereus · *Sogda · Kalohydnobius · Macrohydnobius · Platyhydnobius
Tribe Leiodini Anogdus · Cyrtusa · Ecarinosphaerula · Isoplastus · Leiodes · Liocyrtusa · Lionothus · Zeadolopus
Tribe Pseudoleiodini Cainosternum · Colenis
Tribe Scotocryptini Aglyptinus
Tribe Agathidiini Agathidium · Anisotoma · Gelae · *Stetholiodes
Subfamily Cholevinae
Tribe Leptodirini Platycholeus
Tribe Anemadini Nemadus · Dissochaetus · *Neoeocatops
Tribe Cholevini Catops · Catoptrichus · Prionochaeta · Sciodrepoides
Tribe Ptomaphagini Ptomaphagus
Subfamily Platypsyllinae Leptinillus · Leptinus · Platypsyllus
Identification
A small eighth antennomere is characteristic(6)

Some European galleries provide samples of the fauna fairly representative of the Holarctic region: Leiodidae Deutschlands • Polish fauna • Cholevinae and Leiodinae of Germany
Range
worldwide & across NA(2)
Habitat
litter, various decayed matter, vertebrate and ant nests/burrows (some even ectoparasites of mammals), caves/caverns, various fungi (incl. subterranean ones) and slime molds (Myxomycetes)(2)
Print References
(7)
Works Cited
1.An annotated catalog of the Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Nearctic region (Continental North America North of Mexico)
S.B. Peck & A.F. Newton. 2017. The Coleopterists Bulletin 71(2): 211-258.
2.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
3.Newton A.F., Thayer M.K. Catalog of higher taxa of Staphyliniformia and genera and subgenera of Staphylinoidea [online]
4.Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the Catopocerini (eyeless soil fungivore beetles) of North America...
Peck S.B., Cook J. 2011. Zootaxa 3077: 1–118.
5.Systematics, distributions, and bionomics of the Neoeocatops gen. nov. and Nemadus of North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae...)
Peck S.B., Cook J. 2007. Can. Entomol. 139: 87‒117.
6.Hidden Company that Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips
James B. Nardi. 2023. Princeton University Press.
7.New state records for 33 species of round fungus beetles, small carrion beetles and mammal nest beetles (Coleoptera: Leiodidae)
Karns KD. 2023. Insecta Mundi 1011: 1–8.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 29 March, 2005 - 4:05pm
Additional contributions by Jeff Gruber, Graham M, v belov, Marci Hess, Thrasher, Arturo Santos
Last updated 23 August, 2024 - 11:23am

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