''Peltis'' is a genus of beetles found in

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...

and

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, and the sole extant member of the family Peltidae, formerly included in the

Trogossitidae Trogossitidae, also known as bark-gnawing beetles, are a small family in the superfamily Cleroidea. Many taxa formerly within this family have been removed (as of 2019) to other families, such as Lophocateridae, Peltidae, Protopeltidae, Rentoniid ...

.Gimmel, M.L., Bocakova, M., Gunter, N.L. and Leschen, R.A. (2019) Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Syst Entomol, 44: 527-558. Members of this genus are dark, averaging from brown, to dark brown, to black. They are small, wide, and flat-bodied with wide, ridged elytra. Fossil species of this genus are known from the Eocene aged Florissant Formation of the United States, as well as the

Baltic amber Baltic amber or succinite is amber from the Baltic region, home of its largest known deposits. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that this forested region provided the re ...

of Europe. ''Peltis'' larvae feed on fungal hypae growing inside rotting wood. Larvae grow for two to three years before becoming adults. Other species considered to belong to the family include '' Juralithinus'' from the Late Jurassic Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan, and '' Palaeoendomychus'' from the Early Cretaceous aged Laiyang Formation, China.

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Cleroidea genera {{Cleroidea-stub