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Tetratomidae

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Description

The Tetratomidae are a small family of beetles with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name polypore fungus beetles. The family consists of several genera, most of which used to be in the family Melandryidae. The Tetratomidae can be found worldwide.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetratomidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4764	https://www.gbif.org/species/4764
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	346210	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=346210

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Tetratomidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Coleopterida	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
order	Coleoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
superfamily	Tenebrionoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Tetratomidae	Billberg 1820

Common Name

polypore fungus beetle

Scientific Name

Tetratomidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tetratomidae	tribe	belongs to Melandryidae	stated with evidence	Casey, 1900
Tetratomidae	family	belongs to Heteromera	stated without evidence	Crowson, 1981
Tetratomidae	family	belongs to Tenebrionoidea	stated without evidence	Lawrence and Newton, 1995
Tetratomidae	family	belongs to Tenebrionoidea	stated with evidence	Bouchard et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

11 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

105 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. J. Billberg. 1820. Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg

Common Name(s)

Polypore Fungus Beetles, Polypore Fungus Beetle, Skinnsvampbaggar

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetratomidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Eustrophinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		4	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Hallomeninae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		1	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Penthinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Piseninae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Tetratominae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		2	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Cyanopenthe genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eustrophopsis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eustrophus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hallomenus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Holostrophus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mycetoma genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Penthe genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pisenus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudoholostrophus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Synstrophus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tetratoma genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Triphyllia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1900	Tetratomini Casey p. 166
1981	Tetratomidae Crowson p. 697
1995	Tetratomidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. p. 786
2011	Tetratomidae Bouchard et al.
2014	Tetratomidae Soriano and Pollock p. 942
2018	Tetratomidae Batelka et al.

References

Billberg G. J. , Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg, 1-138

Casey T. L. Review of the American Corylophidae, Cryptophagidae, Tritomidae and Dermestidae, with other studies, Journal of the New York Entomological Society 8, 51-172

Crowson R. A. (1981) The Biology of the Coleoptera, Academic Press, New York

Lawrence J. F., Newton, Jr. A. F. (1995) Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera, Biology, Phylogeny and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A Crowson, 779-1006

Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., et al (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, 1-972

Soriano C., Pollock D. (2014) Taxonomic names, in First fossil record of polypore fungus beetles from Lower Cretaceous amber of France, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59, 941-946

Batelka J., Engel M. S., et al (2018) A remarkable diversity of parasitoid beetles (Ripiphoridae) in Cretaceous amber, with a summary of the Mesozoic record of Tenebrionoidea, Cretaceous Research 90, 296-310

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds., 1995: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2. 779-1006. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Bouchard, P.; Bousquet, Y.; Davies, A.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M.; Lawrence, J.; Lyal, C.; Newton, A.; Reid, C.; Schmitt, M.; Slipinski, A.; Smith, A. (2011). Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys. 88: 1-972. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al., 2011: Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys, vol. 88. 1-972. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Young, Daniel K., and Darren A. Pollock / Arnett, Ross H., Jr., et al., eds., 2002: Family 99. Tetratomidae Billberg 1820. American Beetles, vol. 2: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. 413-416. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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