Biphyllidae, or false skin beetles, are a family of

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

s, in the superfamily

Cleroidea Cleroidea is a small superfamily of beetles containing over 10,000 species. Most of the members of the group are somewhat slender, often with fairly soft, flexible elytra, and typically hairy or scaly. Description Cleroidea is defined by the f ...

. The have a cosmopolitan distribution (excluding New Zealand). About 195 species are known. They live under the bark of dead trees and in leaf litter, and are mycophagous, feeding on fungi.

Taxonomy

The family contains the following genera: * '' Althaesia'' Pascoe, 1860 * '' Anchorius'' Casey, 1900 * '' Anobocaelus'' Sharp, 1902 * '' Biphyllus'' Dejean, 1821 * '' Diplocoelus'' Guérin-Méneville, 1836 * '' Euderopus'' Sharp, 1900 * '' Gonicoelus'' Sharp, 1900 * †'' Paleobiphyllus'' Makarov and Perkovsky 2019 Taimyr amber, Russia, Late Cretaceous (

Santonian The Santonian is an age in the geologic timescale or a chronostratigraphic stage. It is a subdivision of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series. It spans the time between 86.3 ± 0.7 mya (million years ago) and 83.6 ± 0.7 mya. ...

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q583498 Cleroidea Polyphaga families