Biphyllidae Explained

Biphyllidae, or false skin beetles, are a family of beetles, in the superfamily Cleroidea. They have a cosmopolitan distribution (excluding New Zealand). About 195 species are known. They live under the bark of dead trees and in leaf litter, and are mycophagous, feeding on fungi.^{[1] [2]}

Taxonomy

The family contains the following genera:^[3]

• Althaesia Pascoe, 1860
• Anchorius Casey, 1900
• Anobocaelus Sharp, 1902
• Biphyllus Dejean, 1821
• Diplocoelus Guérin-Méneville, 1836
• Euderopus Sharp, 1900
• Gonicoelus Sharp, 1900
• †Paleobiphyllus Makarov and Perkovsky 2019^[4] Taimyr amber, Russia, Late Cretaceous (Santonian)

Notes and References

1. Book: Michael A. Ivie . American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea . Volume 2 of American Beetles . Ross H. Arnett & Michael Charles Thomas . . 2002 . 978-0-8493-0954-0.
2. Cline, Andrew R. and Shockley, Floyd W.. "10.6. Biphyllidae LeConte, 1861". 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. 306-311.
3. http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Arthropoda/Insects/Coleoptera/Family/Biphyllidae.txt Biphyllidae Species List
4. Makarov. Kirill V.. Perkovsky. Evgeny E.. February 2020. Smallest and oldest false skin beetle: Paleobiphyllus ponomarenkoi gen. et sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Biphyllidae) from Santonian Taimyr amber, northern Russia. Cretaceous Research. en. 106. 104238. 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104238. 202903148 .