Tetratomidae is a small 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 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. Their food consists of fruiting bodies of hymenomycete fungi.

Genera

These 12 genera belong to the family Tetratomidae: * '' Cyanopenthe'' * '' Eustrophopsis'' * '' Eustrophus'' * '' Hallomenus'' * '' Holostrophus'' * ''

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'' * '' Penthe'' * '' Pisenus'' * '' Pseudoholostrophus'' * '' Synstrophus'' * '' Tetratoma'' * '' Triphyllia''

Fossil genera

*Subfamily Eustrophinae ** Tribe Eustrophini *** †'' Allostrophus'' (

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in ...

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...

, Myanmar) *** †'' Thescelostrophus'' (Burmese amber) ** Tribe Holostrophini *** †'' Synchrotronia'' (Cenomanian Charentese amber, France) ** Tribe ''incertae sedis'' *** †'' Cretosynstrophus'' (Burmese amber) *Subfamily Hallomeninae ** †'' Pseudohallomenus'' (

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. ...

Taimyr amber Taymyr or Taimyr may refer to: Places * Taymyr Peninsula, a peninsula in Siberia * Taymyr Gulf * Taymyra, a river in the Taymyr Peninsula * Lake Taymyr * Taymyr Island, an island in the Kara Sea * Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, a former federal subject ...

, Russia)

References

Tenebrionoidea Beetle families {{Tenebrionoidea-stub