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Ceratocanthinae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Hybosoridae
Subfamily: Ceratocanthinae
A. Martínez, 1968
Type genus
Ceratocanthus
White, 1842
Tribes
Synonyms

Acanthoceridae Lacordaire, 1856

Ceratocanthinae is a subfamily of the scarabaeoid beetle family Hybosoridae. It includes three tribes comprising 43 genera and 366 species; it was formerly treated as a separate family, Ceratocanthidae.

Description

Ceratocanthinae are small sized beetles from 2.0 to 10.0 millimeters in length. Adult beetles can be found on the bark and branches of dead trees and on fungus.

Distribution

Ceratocanthinae are relatively widespread. They can be found in Australian, Afrotropical, Indomalaysian, Neotropical, Nearctic, and Palaearctic regions.

Ecology

The adults have been found to associate with termites and ants. Larvae live under bark and in burrows of bessbugs ( Passalidae).

Taxonomy

The subfamily Ceratocanthinae contains 43 genera: [1]

References

  1. ^ Ballerio, Alberto; Grebennikov, Vasily (14 June 2016). "Rolling into a ball: phylogeny of the Ceratocanthinae (Coleoptera: Hybosoridae) inferred from adult morphology and origin of a unique body enrollment coaptation in terrestrial arthropods" (PDF). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 74 (1): 23–52. eISSN  1864-8312. ISSN  1863-7221.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ceratocanthinae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Hybosoridae
Subfamily: Ceratocanthinae
A. Martínez, 1968
Type genus
Ceratocanthus
White, 1842
Tribes
Synonyms

Acanthoceridae Lacordaire, 1856

Ceratocanthinae is a subfamily of the scarabaeoid beetle family Hybosoridae. It includes three tribes comprising 43 genera and 366 species; it was formerly treated as a separate family, Ceratocanthidae.

Description

Ceratocanthinae are small sized beetles from 2.0 to 10.0 millimeters in length. Adult beetles can be found on the bark and branches of dead trees and on fungus.

Distribution

Ceratocanthinae are relatively widespread. They can be found in Australian, Afrotropical, Indomalaysian, Neotropical, Nearctic, and Palaearctic regions.

Ecology

The adults have been found to associate with termites and ants. Larvae live under bark and in burrows of bessbugs ( Passalidae).

Taxonomy

The subfamily Ceratocanthinae contains 43 genera: [1]

References

  1. ^ Ballerio, Alberto; Grebennikov, Vasily (14 June 2016). "Rolling into a ball: phylogeny of the Ceratocanthinae (Coleoptera: Hybosoridae) inferred from adult morphology and origin of a unique body enrollment coaptation in terrestrial arthropods" (PDF). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 74 (1): 23–52. eISSN  1864-8312. ISSN  1863-7221.

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