Anamorphidae

{{Short description|Family of beetles}}

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| taxon = Anamorphidae

| display_parents = 3

| authority = Strohecker, 1953

| oldest_fossil = Late Cretaceous

| image = Symbiotes latus Redtenbacher, 1849 (26308670378).png

| image_caption = Symbiotes latus

| synonyms = {{Taxon list

| Acritosomatinae | Pakaluk and Slipinski, 1995

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Anamorphidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Coccinelloidea, formerly included within the family Endomychidae.{{Cite journal |last1=Robertson |first1=James A. |last2=Ślipiński |first2=Adam |last3=Moulton |first3=Matthew |last4=Shockley |first4=Floyd W. |last5=Giorgi |first5=Adriano |last6=Lord |first6=Nathan P. |last7=Mckenna |first7=Duane D. |last8=Tomaszewska |first8=Wioletta |last9=Forrester |first9=Juanita |last10=Miller |first10=Kelly B. |last11=Whiting |first11=Michael F. |last12=Mchugh |first12=Joseph V. |date=October 2015 |title=Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia): Systematics of Cucujoidea and Coccinelloidea |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/syen.12138 |journal=Systematic Entomology |language=en |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=745–778 |doi=10.1111/syen.12138|s2cid=55206626 |url-access=subscription }} They are found worldwide. Like enchomyids, they are fungivores, with adult and larval stages thought to exclusively consume fungal spores.Tomaszewska, Wioletta. "10.32. Endomychidae Leach, 1815". Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 442-454.

Genera

After{{Cite journal |last1=Shockley |first1=F. W. |last2=Tomaszewska |first2=K. W. |last3=Mchugh |first3=J. V. |date=2009-02-04 |title=An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae) |url=https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1999.1.1 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1999 |issue=1 |pages=1–113 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1999.1.1 |issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription }}

Extinct genera and a species of Symbiotes are known from Eocene aged Baltic and Bitterfeld amber.{{Cite journal |last1=Alekseev |first1=Vitalii I. |last2=Tomaszewska |first2=Wioletta |date=2018 |title=New handsome fungus beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Anamorphidae, Endomychidae) from European amber of the Upper Eocene |url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2018/2141-new-coccinelloidea-from-eocene |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=21 |issue=1 |doi=10.26879/832|doi-access=free }} Members of the extinct genus Palaeosymbius are known from the Late Cretaceous Burmese amber from Myanmar.{{Cite journal|last1=Arriaga-Varela |first1=Emmanuel |last2=Szawaryn |first2=Karol |last3=Zhou |first3=Yu-Lingzi |last4=Bruthansová |first4=Jana |last5=Li |first5=Yan-Da |last6=Tomaszewska |first6=Wioletta |year=2024 |title=Early evolution of Anamorphidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea): the oldest known anamorphid beetles from Upper Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar and the first report of potential glandular pores in the family |journal=Cladistics |doi=10.1111/cla.12576 |pmid=38573084 }}

References

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite book

| editor-last1 = Arnett | editor-first1 = R.H. Jr.

| editor-last2 = Thomas | editor-first2 = M. C.

| editor-last3 = Skelley | editor-first3 = P. E.

| editor-last4 = Frank | editor-first4 = J. H.

| date = 2002

| title = American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea

| publisher = CRC Press

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Kellogg | first1 = Vernon L.

| date = 1905

| title = American insects

| publisher = H. Holt

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Arnett | first1 = Ross H. Jr.

| date = 2000

| title = American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico

| publisher = CRC Press

| volume = 2nd Edition

| isbn = 0-8493-0212-9

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Leng | first1 = Charles W.

| date = 1920

| title = Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico

| publisher = John D. Sherman, Jr.

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Crotch | first1 = G.R.

| date = 1873

| title = Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico

| publisher = Naturalists' Agency

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  • {{Cite book

| editor-last1 = Capinera | editor-first1 = John L.

| date = 2008

| title = Encyclopedia of Entomology

| publisher = Springer

| isbn = 978-1402062421

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Gillott

| first1 = Cedric

| date = 1980

| title = Entomology

| publisher = Plenum Press

| isbn = 0-306-40366-8

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/entomology0000gill

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  • {{Cite book

| author = Donald J. Borror

| author2 = Roger Tory Peterson

| author3 = Richard E. White

| date = 1998

| title = A Field Guide to Insects

| publisher = Houghton Mifflin

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Blatchley | first1 = W.S.

| date = 1910

| title = An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana

| publisher = Nature Pub.

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Papp | first1 = Charles S.

| date = 1984

| title = Introduction to North American Beetles

| publisher = Entomography Pubns

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  • {{Cite book

| last1 = White | first1 = Richard E.

| date = 1983

| title = Peterson Field Guides: Beetles

| publisher = Houghton Mifflin

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Category:Coccinelloidea

Category:Polyphaga families

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