Family of beetles
| Tetratomidae | |
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| Eustrophopsis bicolor | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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.
Their food consists of fruiting bodies of hymenomycete fungi.
Genera※
These 12 genera belong——to the——family Tetratomidae:
- Cyanopenthe Nikitsky, 1998
- Eustrophopsis Champion, 1889
- Eustrophus Illiger, 1807
- Hallomenus Panzer, 1794
- Holostrophus Horn, 1888
- Mycetoma Dejean, 1834
- Penthe Newman, 1838
- Pisenus Casey, 1900
- Pseudoholostrophus Nikitsky, 1983
- Synstrophus Seidlitz, 1898
- Tetratoma Fabricius, 1790
- Triphyllia Reitter, 1898
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)
- Tribe Eustrophini
- 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.
- ^ "Tetratomidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
- ^ "Tetratomidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
- ^ "Browse Tetratomidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
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