Tetratomidae

Tetratomidae; Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Eustrophopsis bicolor
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Tenebrionoidea
Family:	Tetratomidae; Billberg, 1820

Tetratomidae is a small family of beetles 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.^[1]

Their food consists of fruiting bodies of hymenomycete fungi.^[2]

Genera

These 12 genera belong to the family Tetratomidae:

Cyanopenthe Nikitsky, 1998^[3]
Eustrophopsis Champion, 1889^[4]^[5]^[3]
Eustrophus Illiger, 1807^[4]^[5]^[3]
Hallomenus Panzer, 1794^[4]^[5]^[3]
Holostrophus Horn, 1888^[4]^[5]^[3]
Mycetoma Dejean, 1834^[3]
Penthe Newman, 1838^[4]^[5]^[3]
Pisenus Casey, 1900^[4]^[5]^[3]
Pseudoholostrophus Nikitsky, 1983^[4]^[5]^[3]
Synstrophus Seidlitz, 1898^[4]^[5]^[3]
Tetratoma Fabricius, 1790^[4]^[5]^[3]
Triphyllia Reitter, 1898^[4]^[5]^[3]

Fossil genera

Subfamily Eustrophinae
- Tribe Eustrophini
  - †Allostrophus Hsiao et al., 2018 (Cenomanian Burmese amber, Myanmar)
  - †Thescelostrophus Yu et al., 2016 (Burmese amber)
- Tribe Holostrophini
  - †Synchrotronia Soriano & Pollock, 2014 (Cenomanian Charentese amber, France)
- Tribe incertae sedis
  - †Cretosynstrophus Cai et al., 2016 (Burmese amber)
Subfamily Hallomeninae
- †Pseudohallomenus Nikitsky, 1977 (Santonian, Taimyr amber, Russia)

References

^ "Tetratomidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
^ "Family Tetratomidae - Polypore Fungus Beetles - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Tetratomidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Tetratomidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Browse Tetratomidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-21.

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[bugref-1] "Tetratomidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-21.

[2] "Family Tetratomidae - Polypore Fungus Beetles - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2016-08-08.

[gbif-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Tetratomidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-21.

[itis-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Tetratomidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-21.

[catlife-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Browse Tetratomidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-21.

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