Family MYCTERIDAE Oken, 1843

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• Mycteriden Oken, 1843.

  Type genus:

   Mycterus Clairville, 1798.

Introduction

The family Mycteridae is small and mostly tropical, with about 160 species worldwide (Lawrence & Slipinski 2013). The family is well represented in Baltic (Eocene) amber (Alexeev et al. 2020). There are 3 subfamilies and 30 genera, of which two subfamilies (Hemipeplinae, Eurypinae) and three genera (Hemipeplus, Loboglossa, Trichosalpingus) occur in Australia (Lawrence & Slipinski 2013).

Mycterids are subcortical as adults and larvae (Trichosalpingus) or breed in the leaf axils of densely tufted monocotyledons such as palms (Hemipeplus) (Zelazny & Pacumbaba 1982; Pollock 2010; Lawrence & Slipinski 2013).

General References

Alexeev, V.I., Bukejs, A. & Pollock, D.A. 2020. A new fossil Eurypinae genus and sexual dimorphism in the representatives of Omineus (Coleopter: Mycteridae) from Tertiary amber of Europe. Zootaxa 4820(3): 551-562

Lawrence, J.F. & Ślipiński, A. 2013. Australian Beetles. Volume 1 : morphology, classification and key. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 561 pp.

Pollock, D. 2010. Mycteridae Blanchard, 1845. pp.693-699 in Leschen, R.A.B., Beutel, R.G., Lawrence, J.F. & Ślipiński, S.A. (Eds). Handbook of zoology. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. New York and Berlin : W. de Gruyter xiii + 786 pp.

Zelazny, B. & Pacumbaba, E. 1982. Phytophagous insects associated with cadang-cadang infected and healthy palms in southeastern Luzon, Philippines. Ecological Entomology 7(1): 113-120

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