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]
| Tetratomidae Temporal range:
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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 |
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Their food consists of fruiting bodies of hymenomycete fungi.[2]
Genera edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
Wikispecies has information related to Tetratomidae.
- ^ "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.