Salpingidae or narrow-waisted bark beetles is a family of
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 in the superfamily
Tenebrionoidea
The Tenebrionoidea are a very large and diverse superfamily of beetles.
It generally corresponds to the Heteromera of earlier authors.
Taxonomy
Tenebrionoidea contains the following families:
* Aderidae Winkler 1927 (ant-like leaf beetles) ...
. The species are small, about 1.5 – 7 mm in length.
The family is globally distributed and consists of about 45 genera and 300 species, which are generally found in the temperate regions of both hemispheres. The family is mainly associated with plants (both living and dead) as well as with
ascomycete
Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The def ...
and
hyphomycete fungi. Some members of the family are associated with unusual habitats, like ''
Aegialites'' and ''
Antarcticodomus,'' which are found in coastal areas including the
intertidal zone
The intertidal zone or foreshore is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide; in other words, it is the part of the littoral zone within the tidal range. This area can include several types of habitats with various ...
, with former feeding on algae.
[Lawrence, John F., Ślipinśki, Adam, Pollock, Darren A. and Escalona, Hermes. "11.25. Salpingidae Leach, 1815". ''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. 722-729]
Genera
These 28 genera belong to the family Salpingidae:
[
* '' Aegialites'' Mannerheim, 1853
* '' Aglenus'' Erichson, 1845
* '' Antarcticodomus'' Brookes, 1951
* '' Aprostomis'' Grouvelle, 1913
* '' Cariderus'' Mulsant, 1859
* '' Colposis'' Mulsant, 1859
* '' Dacoderus'' LeConte, 1858
* '' Elacatis'' Pascoe, 1860 (false tiger beetles)
* '' Episcapha'' Dejean, 1833
* '' Inopeplus'' Smith, 1851
* '' Istrisia'' Lewis, 1895
* '' Lissodema'' Curtis, 1833
* '' Myrmecoderus'' Aalbu, Andrews & Pollock, 2005
* '' Ocholissa'' Pascoe, 1863
* '' Parelacatis'' Chapin, 1923
* '' Poophylax'' Champion, 1916
* '' Rabocerus'' Mulsant, 1859
* '' Rhinosimus'' Latreille, 1805
* '' Salpingus'' Illiger, 1801
* '' Serrotibia'' Reitter, 1877
* '' Sosthenes'' Champion, 1889
* '' Sphaeriestes'' Stephens, 1831
* '' Szekessya'' Kaszab, 1955
* '' Tretothorax'' Lea, 1911-01
* '' Trogocryptoides'' Champion, 1924
* '' Vincenzellus'' Reitter, 1911
* † '' Cretoprostominia'' Jiang, Liu & Chen, 2024 ]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 ...
, Albian
The Albian is both an age (geology), age of the geologic timescale and a stage (stratigraphy), stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early Cretaceous, Early/Lower Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch/s ...
-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 ...
* † '' Eopeplus'' Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2009 Oise amber
Oise amber () is a type of amber found near the Oise river near Creil in northern France. Oise amber is around 53 million years old, dating to the Early Eocene (Ypresian). Oise amber is softer than Baltic amber, although Oise amber is older ...
, France, Ypresian
In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age (geology), age or lowest stage (stratigraphy), stratigraphic stage of the Eocene. It spans the time between , is preceded by the Thanetian Age (part of the Paleocene) and is followed by th ...
* † '' Protolissodema'' Alekseev, 2013 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 ...
, Eocene
The Eocene ( ) is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes ...
References
Beetle families
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