Tetratomidae is a small 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 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.
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Their food consists of fruiting bodies of hymenomycete fungi.]
Genera
These 12 genera belong to the family Tetratomidae:
* '' Cyanopenthe'' [
* '' Eustrophopsis'' ][
* '' Eustrophus'' ][
* '' Hallomenus'' ][
* '' Holostrophus'' ][
* '']Mycetoma
Mycetoma is a chronic infection Subcutaneous tissue, in the skin caused by either bacteria (actinomycetoma) or fungi (eumycetoma), typically resulting in a triad of painless firm skin lumps, the formation of weeping sinus (anatomy), sinuses, and ...
'' [
* '' Penthe'' ][
* '' Pisenus'' ][
* '' Pseudoholostrophus'' ][
* '' Synstrophus'' ][
* '' Tetratoma'' ][
* '' Triphyllia'' ][
]
Fossil genera
*Subfamily Eustrophinae
** Tribe Eustrophini
*** †'' Allostrophus'' (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)
*** †'' 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 m ...
, Taimyr amber, Russia)
References
Tenebrionoidea
Beetle families
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