Teredidae Explained

Teredidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Coccinelloidea, formerly included within the family Bothrideridae. There are around 160 species in 10 genera, found worldwide except South America. Teredids are generally found under bark, in the galleries of wood-boring beetles, or in leaf litter. They are thought to be fungivores.^[1] The oldest records of the family are Delteredolaemus from mid-Cretaceous aged Burmese amber from Myanmar^[2] and a species of Teredolaemus from Eocene aged Baltic amber.^[3]

Genera

• Subfamily Teredinae
  • Tribe Sysolini
    • Sysolus Grouvelle, 1908
  • Tribe Sosylopsini
    • Sosylopsis Grouvelle, 1910
  • Tribe Teredini
    • Teredus Dejean, 1835
    • Oxylaemus Erichson, 1845
    • Teredomorphus Heinze, 1943
    • Rustleria Stephan, 1989
    • Teredolaemus Sharp, 1885
    • Delteredolaemus Li, Huang & Cai, 2023
• Subfamily Anommatinae
  • Anommatus Wesmael, 1835
• Subfamily Xylariophilinae
  • Xylariophilus Pal & Lawrence, 1986
• Abromus Reitter, 1876
• Kocherius Coiffait, 1984

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.
• Book: Kellogg . Vernon L.. 1905. American insects. H. Holt.
• Book: Arnett . Ross H. Jr.. 2000. American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. 2nd Edition. 0-8493-0212-9.
• Book: Leng . Charles W.. 1920. Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr..
• Book: Crotch . G.R.. 1873. Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency.
• Book: Capinera . John L.. 2008. Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. 978-1402062421.
• Book: Gillott. Cedric. 1980. Entomology. Plenum Press. 0-306-40366-8. registration.
• Book: Donald J. Borror. Roger Tory Peterson. Richard E. White. 1998. A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin.
• 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: Papp . Charles S.. 1984. Introduction to North American Beetles. Entomography Pubns.
• Book: White . Richard E.. 1983. Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin.

Notes and References

1. Liu . Zhenhua . Lin . Wei . Li . Zhiqiang . 2021-11-15 . The First Record of Teredidae (Coleoptera, Coccinelloidea) from China, with Description of a New Species of Teredus Dejean, 1835 . Insects . en . 12 . 11 . 1028 . 10.3390/insects12111028 . 2075-4450 . 8626052 . 34821828. free .
2. Li . Y.-D. . Huang . D.-Y. . Cai . C.-Y. . 2022 . Earliest teredid beetle from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Teredidae): new genus and species . Zoologia (Curitiba) . 39 . e22042 . 10.1590/S1984-4689.v39.e22042 . free .
3. Alekseev . Vitalii I. . Bukejs . Andris . Pankowski . Maximilian G. . Ślipiński . Adam . 2022-11-02 . The first representative of the family Teredidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) in the fossil record . Historical Biology . en . 34 . 11 . 2224–2229 . 10.1080/08912963.2021.2009474 . 244917429 . 0891-2963.