Family MYCTERIDAE Oken, 1843
Compiler and date details
October 2020 - Chris Reid, Australian Museum
2011 - A. Calder, D. Jennings, E. Slipinska and T. Weir
- 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
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
History of changes
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27-Nov-2020 | TENEBRIONOIDEA Latreille, 1802 | 16-Oct-2020 | MODIFIED | |
01-Jul-2020 | TENEBRIONOIDEA Latreille, 1802 | 30-Nov-2018 | MODIFIED | |
01-Jul-2020 | 01-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
29-Sep-2010 | ADDED |