Cucujoidea
Cucujoidea Temporal range:
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Various Cucujoidea with larvae and anatomical details | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Superfamily: | Cucujoidea Latreille, 1802 |
Cucujoidea is a
Morphology
The morphology of Cucujoidea is varied and there are no features uniting all members of the superfamily. In terms of general appearance, they tend to be small, drab in colour and with clubbed antennae.
Adults can be recognised by the procoxal cavities being internally open in most taxa, females having tarsal formula 5-5-5 and males 5-5-5 or 5-5-4 (rarely 4-4-4), females with tergite VIII concealed dorsally by tergite VII, and males with tergite X completely membraneous.[1]
Larvae have frontal arms usually lyriform, the mandible mesal surface usually with well-developed mola, a maxillary articulating area usually present, a hypopharyngeal sclerome usually present, and two pretarsal setae.[1]
Ecology
Cucujoidea usually have cryptic habits, living in fungi, leaf litter or dead wood.[1] This is reflected in many families having "fungus" or "bark" in their common names. The Kateretidae[3] and some Phalacridae[4] feed on flowers instead. The Nitidulidae are quite varied: some are saprophagous and mycetophagous like typical cucujoids, but others are associated with carrion, flowers, insect nests or stored food products.[5]
Taxonomy
According to a 2015 revision, the following 25 families make up superfamily Cucujoidea:[1]
- AgapythidaeSen Gupta and Crowson, 1969
- Boganiidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966
- Cavognathidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966
- silken fungus beetles
- flat bark beetles
- Cybocephalidae Jacquelin du Val, 1858
- Cyclaxyridae Gimmel, Leschen & Ślipiński, 2009 – sooty mould beetles
- pleasing fungus beetles
- Helotidae Reitter, 1876
- Hobartiidae Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966
- short-winged flower beetles(= Brachypteridae)
- lined flat bark beetles
- LamingtoniidaeSen Gupta & Crowson, 1966
- root-eating beetles
- MyraboliidaeLawrence and Britton, 1991
- Nitidulidae Latreille, 1802 – sap beetles
- Passandridae Erichson, 1845 – parasitic flat bark beetles
- shining flower beetles
- Phloeostichidae Reitter, 1911
- Priasilphidae Crowson, 1973
- Protocucujidae Crowson, 1954
- silvanid flat bark beetles
- palmetto beetles
- dry-fungus beetles
- TasmosalpingidaeLawrence and Britton, 1991
- †Parandrexidae Kirejtshuk, 1994 (Middle Jurassic-Early Cretaceous)
- †Wabbelidae Alekseev, 2017[6] (Eocene)
Extinct genera
- †Alloterocucus Li et al., 2022 Burmese amber, Myanmar, mid-Cretaceous (latest Albian- earliest Cenomanian)
References
- ^ S2CID 55206626.
- ISSN 1399-560X.
- ^ "Family Kateretidae - Short-winged Flower Beetles". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
- ^ "Family Phalacridae - Shining Flower Beetles". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
- ^ "Family Nitidulidae - Sap-feeding Beetles". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
- ^ Vitalii I. Alekseev (2017). "A new coleopterous family Wabbelidae fam. nov. (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) from Baltic amber (Cenozoic, Paleogene, Eocene)". Baltic Journal of Coleopterology. 17 (1): 29–41.
External links
- Media related to Cucujoidea at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Cucujoidea at Wikispecies