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Family Aderidae - Ant-like Leaf Beetles

Ant-like Flower Beetle ? - Syzeton nubifer

Zonantes subfasciatus - Syzeton subfasciatus

fan antennae beetle - Emelinus melsheimeri

Female, Emelinus melsheimeri? - Emelinus melsheimeri

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Aderidae (Ant-like Leaf Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Xylophilidae Shuckard 1840, Euglenesidae (=Euglenidae) Seidlitz 1875, Hylophilidae Pic 1900

Revised in (1)

Explanation of Names

Aderidae Csiki 1909

Numbers

4 tribes, with 65 spp. in 16 genera in our area(1) and ~900 spp. in 50 genera total(2)

Overview of nearctic generaFamily Aderidae

Tribe Phytobaenini Axylophilus · Ganascus

Tribe Euglenesinini Euglenes · Syzeton

Tribe Emelinini Emelinus

Tribe Aderini

Subtribe Cnopina Cnopus

Subtribe Aderina Aderus

Subtribe Syzetoninina Pseudanidorus · Ariotus · Pseudariotus · Elonus

Subtribe Gompeliina Gymnoganascus

Incertae sedis Cedraderus · *Cobososia · *Grzymala · *Litaderus

Size

1‒4 mm(3)

Identification

see (1)

Range

Worldwide

Habitat

Adults collected by beating/sweeping, in light traps, sometimes in litter/soil from old tree cavities. Habitats extremely diverse (deserts, temperate & tropical forests, from seashores to alpine pastures).(1) Larvae in rotting wood, bee nests, termite nests, leaf litter, under bark(3)

Internet References

Aderidae of Texas (Quinn 2021)

Works Cited

1.	The Aderidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) of the USA and Canada Gompel N. 2024. Col. Bull. 78(mo20): 1–84.

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.	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.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 22 January, 2006 - 9:34am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Phillip Harpootlian, Jeff Gruber, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Nicolas Gompel, v belov
Last updated 16 December, 2024 - 3:03pm

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