Corylophidae Explained

Corylophidae is a family of minute hooded beetles, sometimes called minute fungus beetles, in the superfamily Coccinelloidea. There are about 18 genera and at least 120 described species in Corylophidae.^[1] They feed on microfungi such as molds, and are often found associated with bark, as well as in leaf litter and other decaying vegetation.^[2] In older literature, the family name was often given as Orthoperidae.^[3]

Genera

• Aenigmaticum Matthews, 1888

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• Aposericoderus Paulian, 1950

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• Arthrolipes

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• Arthrolips Wollaston, 1854

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• Clypastraea Haldeman, 1842

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• Clypastrea

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• Corylophus Leach, 1833

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• Foadia Pakaluk, 1985

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• Gloeosoma Wollaston, 1854

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• Holopsis Broun, 1883

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• Hoplicnema Matthews, 1899

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• Microstagetus Wollaston, 1861

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• Orthoperus Stephens, 1829

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• Rypobius LeConte, 1852

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• Sericoderus Stephens, 1829

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• Stanus Ślipiński, Tomaszewska & Lawrence, 2009

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• Teplinus Pakaluk, Slipinski & Lawrence, 1994

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• Weirus Slipinski, Tomaszewska and Lawrence, 2009

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• Xenostanus Li et al. 2022 Burmese amber, Myanmar, mid Cretaceous (latest Albian - earliest Cenomanian)^[4]

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Book: Arnett . R.H. Jr.. Thomas . M. C.. Skelley . P. E.. Frank . J. H.. 2002. American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 978-0849309540.
• Book: Blatchley. W.S.. 1910. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub..
• Book: Borror. Donald J.. Peterson. Roger Tory. White. Richard E.. 1998. A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin. 978-0395911709.
• Bouchard . P.. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys. 88. 88: 1–972. 10.3897/zookeys.88.807. free . 21594053 . 3088472.
• Bouchard . P.. Bousquet . Y.. Davies . A.. Sikes . D.. 2013. Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. ZooKeys. 360. 2nd. 1–44. 10.3897/zookeys.360.4742. free . 24363590 . 3867111.
• Book: Bowestead . Stanley. Leschen . Richard A.B.. Arnett . R. H. Jr.. 2002. Family 94. Corylophidae LeConte 1852. American Beetles vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 390–394. 0-8493-1925-0.
• Book: Crotch. G.R.. 1873. Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. 10.5962/bhl.title.38811. 0665070772. free.
• Book: Evans . Arthur V.. Hogue . James N.. 2006. Field Guide to Beetles of California. University of California Press. 978-0520246577.
• Book: Gillott. Cedric. 1980. Entomology. Plenum Press. 0-306-40366-8. registration.
• Book: Kellogg. Vernon L.. 1905. American insects. H. Holt.
• Klimaszewski. Jan. Watt. J.Charles. 1997. Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification. Fauna of New Zealand. 37.
• Book: Lawrence . J.F.. Newton . A.F. Jr.. Pakaluk . James. Slipinski . Stanislaw Adam. 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. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. 2. 779–1006. 83-85192-34-4.
• Book: LeConte. J.L.. 1861. Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Smithsonian Institution. 3. 136. 0665100558. 10.5962/bhl.title.38459. free.
• Book: Leng . Charles W.. 1920. Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.. 10.5962/bhl.title.8777. free.
• Book: Majka . C.G.. Chandler . D.S.. Donahue . C.P.. 2011. Checklist of the beetles of Maine, USA. Empty Mirrors Press, Halifax. 978-0969510444.
• Misof. Bernhard. Liu. Shanlin. Meusemann. Karen. Peters. Ralph S.. Donath. Alexander. 4. 2014. Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution. Science. 346. 6210. 763–767. 10.1126/science.1257570. 25378627. 36008925.
• Web site: 2018-04-21. Peck. Stewart B.. Thomas. Michael C.. 1998. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. https://web.archive.org/web/20180510140014/http://freshfromflorida.s3.amazonaws.com/arthropods-of-florida-vol-16.pdf. 2018-05-10. dead.
• Poole. Robert W.. Gentili. Patricia. 1996. A Check List of the Insects of North America: Coleoptera. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America. Entomological Information Services. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera. 41–820. 9781889002019.
• Book: White. Richard E.. 1998. 1983. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 0395910897.

Notes and References

1. Book: George Hangay & Paul Zborowski . 2010 . A Guide to the Beetles of Australia . . 978-0-643-09487-1 . Corylophidae . 164 . https://books.google.com/books?id=RlGZ-EWJHBcC&pg=PA164.
2. Ślipinśki, Adam, Lawrence, John F. and Cline, Andrew R.. "10.34. Corylophidae LeConte, 1852". Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 472-481.
3. Book: Donald Borror. Richard White. A field guide to the insects of America north of Mexico. registration. 1970. Houghton Mifflin. 978-0-395-07436-7.
4. Li . Yan-Da . Zhang . Yu-Bo . Szawaryn . Karol . Huang . Di-Ying . Cai . Chen-Yang . 2022-08-18 . Earliest fossil record of Corylophidae from Burmese amber and phylogeny of Corylophidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) . Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny . en . 80 . 411–422 . 10.3897/asp.80.e81736 . 251675514 . 1864-8312. free .