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Subfamily Cryptophaginae

family? - Telmatophilus americanus Cryptophagus - Cryptophagus pseudodentatus brown - Cryptophagus Cryptophagidae? - Caenoscelis Cryptophagus bussi Esser, 2017 - Cryptophagus bussi - male Cryptic Slim Mold - Cryptophagus Cryptophagus sp. - Cryptophagus Beetle - Cryptophagus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Cucujid series)
Family Cryptophagidae (Silken Fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Cryptophaginae
Numbers
ca. 50 spp. in 8 genera (of which 30 spp. are in Cryptophagus) in our area(1); 18 spp. in 7 genera in Atlantic Canada(2)
Identification
keys to spp. in(2) cover most of the ne. NA fauna
Range
worldwide and throughout NA(1)
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.Contributions towards an understanding of the Cryptophaginae (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) of Atlantic Canada
Majka C.G., Langor D. 2010. ZooKeys 35: 13-35.