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Subfamily Ceryloninae

Small brown beetle - Philothermus glabriculus Minute Bark Beetle - Cerylon unicolor Cerylon castaneum? - Cerylon castaneum Tenebrionidae - Cerylon castaneum Beetle - Cerylon unicolor Cerylonidae Philothermus sp. ? - Philothermus glabriculus Philothermus glabriculus In Maryland - Philothermus glabriculus Philothermus glabriculus In Maryland - Philothermus glabriculus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Bothriderid group)
Family Cerylonidae (Minute Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Ceryloninae
Numbers
11 spp. in 3 genera in our area(1), 36 genera worldwide(2)
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.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.