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Teredidae

Teredidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Coccinelloidea, formerly included within the family Bothrideridae. There are around 160 species in 10 genera, found worldwide except South America. Teredids are generally found under bark, in the galleries of wood-boring beetles, or in leaf litter. They are thought to be fungivores. The oldest records of the family are Delteredolaemus from mid-Cretaceous aged Burmese amber from Myanmar and a species of Teredolaemus from Eocene aged Baltic amber.

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Teredidae
Temporal range:
Oxylaemus variolosus
Anommatus duodecimstriatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Coccinelloidea
Family: Teredidae
Seidlitz, 1888
Synonyms1
  • Anommatidae Ganglbauer, 1899

Teredidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Coccinelloidea, formerly included within the family Bothrideridae.1 There are around 160 species in 10 genera, found worldwide except South America. Teredids are generally found under bark, in the galleries of wood-boring beetles, or in leaf litter. They are thought to be fungivores.2 The oldest records of the family are Delteredolaemus from mid-Cretaceous aged Burmese amber from Myanmar3 and a species of Teredolaemus from Eocene aged Baltic amber.4

Genera

  • Subfamily Teredinae
    • Tribe Sysolini
      • Sysolus Grouvelle, 1908
    • Tribe Sosylopsini
      • Sosylopsis Grouvelle, 1910
    • Tribe Teredini
      • Teredus Dejean, 1835
      • Oxylaemus Erichson, 1845
      • Teredomorphus Heinze, 1943
      • Rustleria Stephan, 1989
      • Teredolaemus Sharp, 1885
      • †Delteredolaemus Li, Huang & Cai, 20233
  • Subfamily Anommatinae
    • Anommatus Wesmael, 1835
  • Subfamily Xylariophilinae
    • Xylariophilus Pal & Lawrence, 1986
  • Abromus Reitter, 1876
  • Kocherius Coiffait, 1984
References

References

  1. Robertson, James; Slipinski, Adam; Moulton, Matthew; Shockley, Floyd; et al. (2015). "Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)". Systematic Entomology. 40 (4): 745–778. doi:10.1111/syen.12138. ISSN 0307-6970. S2CID 55206626.
  2. Liu, Zhenhua; Lin, Wei; Li, Zhiqiang (2021-11-15). "The First Record of Teredidae (Coleoptera, Coccinelloidea) from China, with Description of a New Species of Teredus Dejean, 1835". Insects. 12 (11): 1028. doi:10.3390/insects12111028. ISSN 2075-4450. PMC 8626052. PMID 34821828.
  3. Li, Y.-D.; Huang, D.-Y.; Cai, C.-Y. (2022). "Earliest teredid beetle from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Teredidae): new genus and species". Zoologia (Curitiba). 39 e22042. doi:10.1590/S1984-4689.v39.e22042. hdl:1983/f25d8970-6b17-41fd-aa83-3c9e869e6bab.
  4. Alekseev, Vitalii I.; Bukejs, Andris; Pankowski, Maximilian G.; Ślipiński, Adam (2022-11-02). "The first representative of the family Teredidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) in the fossil record". Historical Biology. 34 (11): 2224–2229. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.2009474. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 244917429.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press.
  • Kellogg, Vernon L. (1905). American insects. H. Holt.
  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. Vol. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.
  • Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency.
  • Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1.
  • Gillott, Cedric (1980). Entomology. Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-40366-8.
  • Donald J. Borror; Roger Tory Peterson; Richard E. White (1998). A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin.
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
  • Papp, Charles S. (1984). Introduction to North American Beetles. Entomography Pubns.
  • White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin.