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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (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
Minute Bark Beetle - Philothermus glabriculus Minute Bark Beetle - Cerylon castaneum Ostomopsis neotropicalis Lawrence & Stephan - Ostomopsis neotropicalis Small Cerylon - Cerylon unicolor Cerylon castaneum Philothermus floridensis (Sen Gupta & Crowson) - Philothermus floridensis Suborder Polyphaga? - Cerylon unicolor Coccinelloidea - Cerylonidae - Philothermus glabriculus
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 (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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