Combocerus

Combocerus
Adult from Utzenfeld in the Black Forest
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Erotylidae
Genus:	Combocerus Bedel, 1868
Species:	C. glaber
Binomial name
Combocerus glaber (Schaller, 1783)
Synonyms1
Dermestes quadripustulatus Panzer, 1793 Ips sanguinicollis Fabricius, 1787 Silpha glaber Schaller, 1783 Triplax quadrimaculatus Herbst, 1793

Combocerus is a genus of beetles belonging to the pleasing fungus beetle family (Erotylidae). Its only species is Combocerus glaber.²

The genus was established by Bedel in 1868 for the European species first described as Silpha glaber by Johann Gottlieb Schaller in 1783 and erroneously affiliated with the carrion beetles due to it being attracted to dung and decaying plants on the ground. In the next decade, other authors, assuming the species to be hitherto unknown, re-described it as a presumed bark beetle or skin beetle, until it was correctly identified as a pleasing fungus beetle in its re-description by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1793.²