Cybocephalidae

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Cybocephalidae
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Cucujoidea
Family: Cybocephalidae
Jacquelin du Val, 1858

Cybocephalidae is a family of sap, bark and fungus beetles in the order Coleoptera with a wide global distribution. The type genus Cybocephalus has more than 200 species in it and the entire family has about 220 species in all.[1][2][3][4] Many species are predators of armoured scale insects (Diaspididae).[5] There are four tarsal segments on all the legs. The body is only slightly longer than wide and very convex and shiny. They are small and about 1 to 3 mm long. The insect can roll into a ball like position with its downward facing head. The tarsomeres are lobed underneath. The family is sometimes treated as a subfamily within the Nitudulidae.[6]

The following genera have a 10 segmented antenna:

  • Apastillus Kirejtshuk & Mantic, 2015 monotypic, from Japan.
  • Theticephalus Kirejtshuk, 1988 from northwest Africa and Asia.
  • Pacicephalus Kirejtshuk & Mantic, 2015 from The Caroline Islands (northwest Pacific.)
  • Amedissia Kirejtshuk & Mantic, 2015, which is Neotropical.
  • Horadion Enrödy-Younga, 1976 from tropical Africa.

The following genera have an 11 segmented antenna:

  • Pycnocephalus Sharp, 1891 with 3 species from Central and South America.
  • Hierronius Enrödy-Younga, 1968 with 3 species endemic to Madeira and Canary Islands.
  • Pastillodes Enrödy-Younga, 1968 with 2 species from northwest Africa.
  • Taxicephomerus Kirejtshuk, 1994 monotypic, from Vietnam.
  • Pastillus Enrödy-Younga, 1962 with 2 Afrotropical species.
  • Endrodiellus Enrödy-Younga, 1962 which is monotypic from Madagascar.
  • Cybocephalus Erichson, 1844

References[]

  1. ^ "Cybocephalidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  2. ^ "Cybocephalidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  3. ^ "Cybocephalidae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  4. ^ "Browse Cybocephalidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  5. ^ Smith, Trevor Randall; Bailey, Rafique (2007). "A New Species of Cybocephalus (Coleoptera: Cybocephalidae) from Taiwan and a New Distribution Record for Cybocephalus nipponicus". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 61 (4): 503–508. JSTOR 27571054.
  6. ^ Lawrence, John F.; Slipinski, Adam (2013). Australian Beetles. Volume I. Morphology, Classification and Keys. CSIRO. pp. 325–327.

Further reading[]

  • Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press.
  • Kellogg, Vernon L. (1905). American insects. H. Holt.
  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. Vol. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.
  • Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency.
  • Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
  • Gillott, Cedric (1980). Entomology. Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-40366-8.
  • Donald J. Borror; Roger Tory Peterson; Richard E. White (1998). A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin.
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
  • Papp, Charles S. (1984). Introduction to North American Beetles. Entomography Pubns.
  • White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin.


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