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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 » Sap, Bark and Fungus Beetles (Cucujoidea) » Cucujid series » Silken Fungus Beetles (Cryptophagidae) » Cryptophaginae

Subfamily Cryptophaginae

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
What is the bug on the bee's tongue - Antherophagus Silvanoprus angusticollis also? - Cryptophagus acutangulus Salebius - Salebius octodentatus Cryptophagid loaded with mites - Cryptophagus laticollis Cryptophagidae, ventral - Cryptophagus setulosus Beetle - Caenoscelis basalis Henoticus? - Henotiderus lorna Cryptophagus discedens? - Cryptophagus tuberculosus
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 Cucujoidea (Sap, Bark and Fungus Beetles)
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.
Contributed by v belov on 20 February, 2010 - 7:47pm
Last updated 22 June, 2010 - 8:05am

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