Jacobsoniidae
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| Family: | Jacobsoniidae Heller, 1926
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Jacobsoniidae is a family of beetles. The larvae and adults live under bark, in plant litter, fungi, bat guano and rotten wood.[1] It is a small family with 23 described species in three genera:[2]
Description
Members of this family have a small body size (0.7-2.1mm in length).[1] Their bodies are narrow, and are four times as long as they are wide.[1] They are often a yellowish-brown in color.[1]
Distribution
Members of this family have been found in Florida, South America, Central America, Polynesia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia.[1]
Taxonomy
- Genus Sarothrias Grouvelle, 1918
- Sarothrias amabilis Slipinski & Lobl, 1995
- Sarothrias audax Slipinski & Lobl, 1995
- Sarothrias bournei Slipinski, 1986
- Sarothrias crowsoni Lobl & Burckhardt, 1988
- Sarothrias dimerus (Heller, 1926)
- Sarothrias eximius Grouvelle, 1918
- Sarothrias fijianus Lobl & Burckhardt, 1988
- Sarothrias hygrophilus Pal, 1998
- Sarothrias indicus Dajoz, 1978
- Sarothrias lawrencei Lobl & Burckhardt, 1988
- Sarothrias morokanus Poggi, 1991
- Sarothrias pacificus Slipinski & Lobl, 1995
- Sarothrias papuanus Slipinski, 1986
- Sarothrias sinicus Bi & Chen, 2015[3]
- Genus Saphophagus Sharp, 1886
- Saphophagus minutus Sharp, 1886
- Genus Derolathrus Sharp, 1908
- Derolathrus abyssus Yamamoto & Parker, 2017
- Derolathrus anophthalmus (Franz, 1969)
- Derolathrus atomus Sharp, 1908
- Derolathrus cavernicolus Peck, 2010[4]
- Derolathrus ceylonicus (Sen Gupta, 1979)
- Derolathrus groehni Cai & al., 2016
- Derolathrus insularis (Dajoz, 1973)
- Derolathrus parvulus (Rucker, 1983)
- Derolathrus sharpi Grouvelle, 1912
- Derolathrus troglophilus (Sen Gupta, 1979)
References
- ^ a b c d e Michael A. Ivie (2002). Ross H. Arnett & Michael Charles Thomas (ed.). American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Volume 2 of American Beetles. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- ^ Hava, J. & Lobl, I. (2005). "A world catalogue of the family Jacobsoniidae (Coleoptera). Archived 2012-05-15 at the Wayback Machine" Studies and Reports of District Museum Prague-East. Taxonomical Series 1. 1 (1-2): 89-94.
- ^ Bi, W.-X.; Chen, C.-C.; Lin, M.-Y. 2015: First record of Jacobsoniidae (Coleoptera) from China with description of a new species of Sarothrias Grouvelle. ZooKeys, 496: 53-60. doi:10.3897/zookeys.496.8620
- ^ Peck, S.B. 2010: Derolathrus cavernicolus n. sp., a beetle family new for North America (Coleoptera: Jacobsoniidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 103(1): 1–6. doi:10.1603/008.103.0101
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