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Ceratocanthinae

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Ceratocanthinae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Hybosoridae
Subfamily: Ceratocanthinae
A. Martínez, 1968
Type genus
Ceratocanthus
White, 1842
Tribes
Synonyms

Acanthoceridae Lacordaire, 1856

Ceratocanthinae is a subfamily of the scarabaeoid beetle family Hybosoridae. It includes three tribes comprising 43 genera and 366 species; it was formerly treated as a separate family, Ceratocanthidae.

Description

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Ceratocanthinae are small sized beetles from 2.0 to 10.0 millimeters in length. Adult beetles can be found on the bark and branches of dead trees and on fungus.

Distribution

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Ceratocanthinae are relatively widespread. They can be found in Australian, Afrotropical, Indomalaysian, Neotropical, Nearctic, and Palaearctic regions.

Ecology

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The adults have been found to associate with termites and ants. Larvae live under bark and in burrows of bessbugs (Passalidae).

Taxonomy

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The subfamily Ceratocanthinae contains 43 genera:[1]

References

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  1. ^ Ballerio, Alberto; Grebennikov, Vasily (14 June 2016). "Rolling into a ball: phylogeny of the Ceratocanthinae (Coleoptera: Hybosoridae) inferred from adult morphology and origin of a unique body enrollment coaptation in terrestrial arthropods" (PDF). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 74 (1): 23–52. eISSN 1864-8312. ISSN 1863-7221.
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