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Family Leiodidae - Round Fungus Beetles

Anogdus dissimilis Blatchley - Anogdus dissimilis

Tritoma humeralis or biguttatus? (1) - Anisotoma

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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