Tetratomidae
Temporal range:
Eustrophopsis bicolor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea
Family: Tetratomidae
Billberg, 1820
Tetratoma

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:

Fossil genera

  • Subfamily Eustrophinae
    • Tribe Eustrophini
      • Allostrophus Hsiao et al., 2018 (Cenomanian Burmese amber, Myanmar)
      • Thescelostrophus Yu et al., 2016 (Burmese amber)
    • Tribe Holostrophini
    • Tribe incertae sedis
      • Cretosynstrophus Cai et al., 2016 (Burmese amber)
  • Subfamily Hallomeninae
    • Pseudohallomenus Nikitsky, 1977 (Santonian, Taimyr amber, Russia)

References

  1. "Tetratomidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  2. "Family Tetratomidae - Polypore Fungus Beetles - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Tetratomidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Tetratomidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Browse Tetratomidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-21.


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