''Endecatomus'' is a genus of beetles, the sole member of the family Endecatomidae. There are at least four described species in ''Endecatomus''.
[ Endecatomidae was formerly treated as a subfamily of Ciidae or Bostrichidae.][ They are found in the ]Holarctic
The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical regi ...
region. Adults and larvae feed on the fruiting bodies of bracket fungus
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'r ...
, creating bored cavities as they do so.[Lawrence, John F.. "6.2. Endecatomidae LeConte, 1861". ''Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim)'', edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 206-209.]
Species
* '' Endecatomus dorsalis'' Mellié, 1848
* '' Endecatomus lanatus'' (Lesne, 1934)
* '' Endecatomus reticulatus'' ( Herbst, 1793)
* '' Endecatomus rugosus'' (Randall, 1838)
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