Tetratomidae
| Tetratomidae Temporal range:
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| Eustrophopsis bicolor | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Tenebrionoidea |
| Family: | Tetratomidae Billberg, 1820 |
Tetratoma
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Tetratomidae is a small family of beetles sometimes called polypore fungus beetles. The family consists of several genera, most of which used to be in the family Melandryidae. Tetratomidae can be found worldwide.[1]
Their food consists of fruiting bodies of hymenomycete fungi[2]
Genera[]
These 12 genera belong to the family Tetratomidae:
- Nikitsky, 1998 g
- Eustrophopsis Champion, 1889 i c g b
- Eustrophus Illiger, 1807 i c g b
- Hallomenus Panzer, 1794 i c g b
- Holostrophus Horn, 1888 i c g b
- Dejean, 1834 g
- Penthe Newman, 1838 i c g b
- Pisenus Casey, 1900 i c g b
- Pseudoholostrophus Nikitsky, 1983 i c g b
- Synstrophus Seidlitz, 1898 i c g b
- Tetratoma Fabricius, 1790 i c g b
- Reitter, 1898 i c g b
Data sources: i = ITIS,[3] c = Catalogue of Life,[4] g = GBIF,[5] b = Bugguide.net[1]
Fossil genera[]
- † Hsiao et al. 2018 Eustrophini, Eustrophinae Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- † Cai et al. 2016 Eustrophinae Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- † Nikitsky 1977 Hallomeninae, , Russia, Santonian
- † Soriano and Pollock 2014 Holostrophini, Eustrophinae, , France, Cenomanian
- † Yu et al. 2016 Eustrophini, Eustrophinae Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
References[]
- ^ a b "Tetratomidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
- ^ "Family Tetratomidae - Polypore Fungus Beetles - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
- ^ "Tetratomidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
- ^ "Browse Tetratomidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
- ^ "Tetratomidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
Categories:
- Tenebrionoidea
- Beetle families
- Tenebrionoidea stubs