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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Polypore Fungus Beetles (Tetratomidae)

Family Tetratomidae - Polypore Fungus Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Food · See Also · Works Cited
Coleoptera - Eustrophopsis bicolor thinking Synstrophus repandus... - Synstrophus repandus Unknown - Pisenus humeralis Synstrophus repandus (?) - Synstrophus repandus Triphyllia elongata Penthe obliquata unidentified beetle - Eustrophopsis bicolor Eustrophopsis bicolor
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 Tetratomidae (Polypore Fungus Beetles)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
used to be treated under Melandryidae
Explanation of Names
Tetratomidae Billberg 1820
see Tetratoma
Numbers
5 subfamilies, with 26 spp. in 10 genera north of Mexico, ca. 155 spp. in 13 genera worldwide(1)(2)
Overview of our fauna
Family Tetratomidae
Subfamily Tetratominae Tetratoma
Subfamily Piseninae Pisenus · Triphyllia
Subfamily Penthinae Penthe
Subfamily Hallomeninae Hallomenus
Subfamily Eustrophinae
Tribe Eustrophini Eustrophopsis · Eustrophus · Synstrophus
Tribe Holostrophini Holostrophus · Pseudoholostrophus
Range
worldwide and throughout NA
Habitat
forested areas; found mostly under fungus-grown bark and in softer shelf fungi(1)
Food
mostly fruiting bodies of hymenomycete fungi, esp. Polyporaceae and Tricholomataceae; adults usually on the surface, larvae bore inside(1)
See Also
Mycetophagidae | Melandryidae | Tenebrionidae
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.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P. et al. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.
Contributed by Cotinis on 1 July, 2004 - 4:24pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 18 February, 2015 - 12:09pm

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