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Family Erotylidae - Pleasing Fungus Beetles

Megalodacne herosPleasing fungus beetle - Triplax thoracicaDasydactylus cnici Schaeffer - Dasydactylus cniciBeetle - Cypherotylus californicusToramus chamaeropis (Schaeffer) - Toramus chamaeropis
Classification
KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
PhylumArthropoda (Arthropods)
SubphylumHexapoda (Hexapods)
ClassInsecta (Insects)
OrderColeoptera (Beetles)
SuborderPolyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
SuperfamilyCucujoidea
No Taxon (Erotylid series)
FamilyErotylidae (Pleasing Fungus Beetles)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
includes Lizard Beetles, formerly treated as a separate family Languriidae but currently split into a number of groups placed into various subfamilies of Erotylidae
This site follows the classification of Węgrzynowicz (2002)(1)
Explanation of Names
Erotylidae Latreille 1802
Greekerotilos 'sweetheart, darling' (diminutive fromeros)(2)
Numbers
>80 spp. in 20 genera in our area, ~3,500 spp. in 260 genera worldwide(3)(4)
Size
2‒22 mm
Identification
Erotylinae in(5) • key to NA genera in(6) • midwestern spp. in(7)
Overview of our fauna:
Family EROTYLIDAE
SubfamilyXenoscelinae

SubfamilyErotylinae
TribeDacnini




Range
worldwide and throughout N. Amer. except far north; most diverse in warmer climates, esp. in the tropics
Food
fruiting bodies of fungi growing in decaying wood(3)
Works Cited
1.Morphology, phylogeny and classification of the family Erotylidae based on adult characters (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)
Węgrzynowicz P. 2002. Genus 13: 435-504.
2.The Century Dictionary: an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language
3.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
4.Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.
5.A revision of the Erotylidae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera).
Boyle, W.W. 1956. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 110: 61-172. .
6.Skelley P.E. (2001) Pleasing fungus beetles of North America: Family Erotylidae
7.The Pleasing Fungus Beetles (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) of Nebraska
Goodrich M.A., Springer C.A. 1999. Trans. Nebr. Acad. Sci. 25: 53-71.
Contributed byTroy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions bycotinis,Beatriz Moisset,Phillip Harpootlian,Mike Quinn,Tim Moyer,v belov,Arturo Santos
Last updated 10 January, 2025 - 2:02pm

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