Trogossitidae, also known as bark-gnawing beetles, are a small family in the superfamily

Cleroidea Cleroidea is a small Taxonomic rank, superfamily of beetles containing over 10,000 species. Most of the members of the group are somewhat slender, often with fairly soft, flexible elytra, and typically hairy or scaly. Description Cleroidea is ...

. Many taxa formerly within this family have been removed (as of 2019) to other families, such as

Lophocateridae Lophocateridae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Cleroidea, formerly included in the Trogossitidae. Members of the group have a variety of ecologies, including as predators of other insects, as fungivores, or are phytophagous. Genera Sou ...

Peltidae ''Peltis'' is a genus of beetles found in North America and Europe, and the sole extant member of the family Peltidae, formerly included in the Trogossitidae.Gimmel, M.L., Bocakova, M., Gunter, N.L. and Leschen, R.A. (2019) Comprehensive phyloge ...

, Protopeltidae,

Rentoniidae Rentoniidae is a family of beetles belonging to Cleroidea. The species were originally included in the family Trogossitidae. They are around 1–2 mm in length, with spherical bodies. Members of the family are native to the Southern Hemisphe ...

, and

Thymalidae Thymalidae is a family of beetles in Cleroidea. They were formerly included in Trogossitidae. Members of the subfamily Decamerinae are found in Central and South America, and are associated with flowers, while '' Thymalus'', the only member of th ...

.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 the family are generally predatory and/or feed on fungi, both in adult and larval stages, and are generally associated with wood, being found under bark or inside bored tunnel galleries. There are about 400 species in 25 genera in the family under the new, restricted circumscription, as opposed to 600 species in over 50 genera in the old definition. The oldest fossil assignable to the modern, more restricted definition of the family is '' Microtrogossita'' from the mid-Cretaceous

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 ...

of Myanmar, which has close affinities to the Trogossitini, indicating that the family had already considerably diversified by this time.

Genera

* ''

Acalanthis ''Acalanthis'' is a genus of checkered beetle Cleridae are a family of beetles of the superfamily Cleroidea. They are commonly known as checkered beetles. The family Cleridae has a worldwide distribution, and a variety of habitats and feedin ...

'' Erichson, 1844 * '' Airora'' Reitter, 1876 * '' Alindria'' Erichson * '' Anacypta'' Illiger * '' Calanthosoma'' Reitter * ''

Calitys ''Calitys'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family 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 ...

'' Thomson, 1859 * '' Corticotomus'' Sharp, 1891 * '' Dupontiella'' Spinola * '' Egolia'' Erichson, 1842 * '' Elestora'' Pascoe * '' Eupycnus'' Sharp * '' Euschaefferia'' Leng, 1920 * '' Gymnocheilis'' Dejean * '' Kolibacia'' Leschen & Lackner, 2013 * '' Larinotus'' Carter & Zeck * '' Leipaspis'' Wollaston, 1862 * '' Leperina'' Erichson, 1844 * '' Melambia'' Erichson * '' Narcisa'' Pascoe * ''

Necrobiopsis ''Necrobiopsis'' is a genus of beetles in the subfamily Egoliinae, found in Chile and Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), ...

'' Crowson, 1964 * '' Nemozoma'' Latreille, 1804 * '' Paracalanthis'' Crowson * '' Parallelodera'' Fairmaire, 1881 * '' Phanodesta'' Reitter * '' Seidlitzella'' Jakobson * '' Temnoscheila'' Westwood, 1830 * '' Tenebroides'' Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783 * '' Xenoglena'' Reitter

References

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* * Polyphaga families {{Cleroidea-stub