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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Bothriderid group » Minute Bark Beetles (Cerylonidae)

Family Cerylonidae - Minute Bark Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Unknown Beetle - Philothermus glabriculus

Philothermus puberulus? - Philothermus puberulus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Coccinelloidea

No Taxon (Bothriderid group)

Family Cerylonidae (Minute Bark Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cerylidae, Aculagnathidae, Dolosidae

Euxestidae and Murmidiidae used to be treated in this family [e.g., in(1)]

Explanation of Names

Cerylonidae Billberg 1820

Numbers

12 spp. in 4 genera in our area, 38 genera worldwide(1)(2)(3)

Overview of our fauna

Family Cerylonidae

Subfamily Ostomopsinae Ostomopsis

Subfamily Ceryloninae Cerylon · Mychocerus · Philothermus

Size

1-5 mm

Identification

keys to species in(4)

Range

worldwide, most diverse in the tropics(1)

See Also

Print References

(5)(6)

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.	A monograph of the world Cerylonidae (Coleoptera; Cucujoidea). Part 1 - Introduction and higher classification Ślipiński S.A. 1991. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 88: 1--273.

4.	The North American Cerylonidae (Coleoptera: Clavicornia) John F. Lawrence and Karl Stephan. 1975. Cambridge Entomological Club.

5.	The Cerylonidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada C.G. Majka, D. Langor. 2011. Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society 7: 44-49.

6.	Two species of Cerylonidae new to Florida and the U.S. (Coleoptera) Thomas M.C., Skelley P.E., Lundgren R.W. 1995. Insecta Mundi 9: 46.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 1 November, 2005 - 10:07pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 13 August, 2015 - 12:37pm

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