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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Ironclad Beetles (Zopheridae)

Family Zopheridae - Ironclad Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

rough textured beetle - Phellopsis obcordata

Black and white bug - Zopherus nodulosus

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 Zopheridae (Ironclad Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

includes Monommatinae and Colydiinae that used to be treated as separate families

Explanation of Names

Zopheridae Solier 1834

Numbers

2 subfamilies, with >110 spp. in 37 genera in our area and ~1,700 spp. in almost 200 genera worldwide(1)(2)

Overview of our fauna

Family Zopheridae

Subfamily Zopherinae

Tribe Monommatini Aspathines · Hyporhagus

Tribe Usechini Usechus · Usechimorpha

Tribe Phellopsini Phellopsis

Tribe Pycnomerini Pycnomerus

Tribe Zopherini Zopherus · Phloeodes · Sesaspis

Subfamily Colydiinae

Tribe Colydiini Aulonium · Colydium

Tribe Rhagoderini Rhagodera

Tribe Nematidiini Nematidium

Tribe Synchitini Acolobicus · Bitoma · Colobicus · Coxelus · Denophoelus · Endeitoma · Eucicones · Eudesma · Lasconotus · Lobogestoria · Lyreus · Megataphrus · Microprius · Monoedus · Namunaria · Paha · Phloeonemus · Pseudocorticus · Synchita

Identification

online key to spp. and photo gallery in(1)

Range

worldwide (most diverse in the Neotropics and Australasia) and throughout NA except northernmost parts(1)

Remarks

They travel in the fungus-lined galleries of wood-boring beetles.(3)

Works Cited

1.	Lord N.P., Nearns E.H., Miller K.B. (2011-2013) Ironclad ID

2.	Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.

3.	Hidden Company that Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips James B. Nardi. 2023. Princeton University Press.

Contributed by Cotinis on 12 August, 2004 - 1:59pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 24 September, 2023 - 10:19am

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