Teredidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily
Coccinelloidea
Coccinelloidea is a superfamily of beetles in the order Coleoptera, formerly included in the superfamily Cucujoidea. There are more than 10,000 species in Coccinelloidea, including more than 6000 in the lady beetle family Coccinellidae.
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, formerly included within the family
Bothrideridae
Bothrideridae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Coccinelloidea. They are known commonly as the cocoon-forming beetles or dry bark beetles. They occur worldwide with most native to the Old World tropics. In older literature, the family was ...
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[ There are around 160 species in 10 genera, found worldwide except South America. Teredids are generally found under bark, in the galleries of wood-boring beetles, or in leaf litter. They are thought to be ]fungivores
Fungivory or mycophagy is the process of organisms consuming fungi. Many different organisms have been recorded to gain their energy from consuming fungi, including birds, mammals, insects, plants, amoebas, gastropods, nematodes, bacteria and othe ...
. The oldest records of the family are '' Delteredolaemus'' from mid-Cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 mya (unit), million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era (geology), Era, as well as the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is the ...
aged 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 ...
from Myanmar
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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 ...
aged 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 ...
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Genera
* Subfamily Teredinae
** Tribe Sysolini
*** '' Sysolus'' Grouvelle, 1908
** Tribe Sosylopsini
*** '' Sosylopsis'' Grouvelle, 1910
** Tribe Teredini
*** '' Teredus'' Dejean, 1835
*** '' Oxylaemus'' Erichson, 1845
*** '' Teredomorphus'' Heinze, 1943
*** '' Rustleria'' Stephan, 1989
*** '' Teredolaemus'' Sharp, 1885
*** '' Delteredolaemus'' Li, Huang & Cai, 2023
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