Nosodendridae is a

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

beetle Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...

s, with less than a hundred species in three extant genera, which are found worldwide. '' Nosodendron'', the largest genus, is found in forests and attracted to yeast generated slime on the wounds of trees, and likely consumes fermented substances as well as fungi and microorganisms. Several additional genera and species are known from the fossil record. Nosodendridae is considered to be an isolated lineage within

Polyphaga Polyphaga is the largest and most diverse suborder of beetles. It comprises 144 families in 16 superfamilies, and displays an enormous variety of specialization and adaptation, with over 350,000 described species, or approximately 90% of the b ...

, being the sister group to the clade containing Staphyliniformia, Bostrichoidea and Cucujiformia.

Genera and species

;†'' Basinosa'' *†'' B. pengweii'' (

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age (geology), age of the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch or the lowest stage (stratigraphy), stage of the Upper Cretace ...

;

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. Th ...

, Myanmar) ;†'' Mesonosa'' *†'' M. scandens'' (

;

, Myanmar) ;'' Nosodendron'' * '' Nd. africanum'' * '' Nd. agaboides'' * '' Nd. angelum'' * '' Nd. asiaticum'' * '' Nd. australe'' * '' Nd. australicum'' * '' Nd. batchianum'' * '' Nd. bilyi'' * '' Nd. boliviense'' * '' Nd. bucki'' * '' Nd. californicum'' * '' Nd. calvum'' * '' Nd. celebense'' * '' Nd. ceylanicum'' * '' Nd. chelonarium'' * '' Nd. coenosum'' * '' Nd. derasum'' * '' Nd. disjectum'' * '' Nd. dybasi'' * '' Nd. elongatum'' * '' Nd. fasciatum'' * '' Nd. fasciculare'' * '' Nd. fijiense'' * '' Nd. glabratum'' * '' Nd. grande'' * '' Nd. hageni'' * '' Nd. helferi'' * '' Nd. hispidum'' * '' Nd. horaki'' * '' Nd. incognitum'' * '' Nd. indicum'' * '' Nd. interruptum'' * '' Nd. jakli'' * '' Nd. kalimantanus'' * '' Nd. laosense'' * '' Nd. latifrons'' * '' Nd. latum'' * '' Nd. leechi'' * '' Nd. lentum'' * '' Nd. madagascariense'' * '' Nd. manuselae'' * '' Nd. marginatum'' * '' Nd. mediobasale'' * '' Nd. mexicanum'' * '' Nd. moluccense'' * '' Nd. nepalense'' * '' Nd. niasense'' * '' Nd. nitidum'' * '' Nd. nomurai'' * '' Nd. oblongum'' * '' Nd. ovatum'' * '' Nd. pauliani'' * '' Nd. politum'' * '' Nd. prudeki'' * '' Nd. punctatostriatum'' * '' Nd. punctulatum'' * '' Nd. reichardti'' * '' Nd. ritsemae'' * '' Nd. sikkimense'' * '' Nd. slipinskii'' * '' Nd. strigiferum'' * '' Nd. subtile'' * '' Nd. testudinum'' * '' Nd. thompsoni'' * '' Nd. tiomanense'' * '' Nd. tonkineum'' * '' Nd. tritavum'' * '' Nd. unicolor'' * '' Nd. vestitum'' * '' Nd. zealandicum'' ;'' Nosoglobulus'' *'' Ng. loebli'' *'' Ng. smetanai'' ;'' Nosotetocus'' *'' Nt. debilis'' *'' Nt. marcovi'' *'' Nt. vespertinus''

References

External links

Nosodendridae at Fauna Europaea
Bostrichoidea Beetle families {{Bostrichoidea-stub