Biology:Tetratomidae

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Short description: Family of beetles

Tetratomidae
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
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Eustrophopsis bicolor
Scientific classification e
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

Wikidata ☰ Q967869 entry