Chalcodryidae

{{Short description|Family of beetles}}

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| taxon = Chalcodryidae

| image = COLE Chalcodryidae Chalcodrya variegata.png

| image_caption = Chalcodrya variegata

| display_parents = 3

| authority = Watt, 1974

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

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The Chalcodryidae are a family of beetles in the superfamily Tenebrionoidea.{{cite journal |last1=Watt |first1=J. C. |year=1974 |title=Chalcodryidae: A new family of heteromerous beetles (Coleoptera: tenebrionoidea) |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=19–38 |doi=10.1080/03036758.1974.10419404 |doi-access=free |bibcode=1974JRSNZ...4...19W }}{{cite web |url=http://nomen.at/Tenebrionoidea |title=Tenebrionoidea |website=Nomen.at - animals and plants |access-date=26 June 2013}} It contains at least five species in two genera Chalcodrya and Philpottia, which are endemic to New Zealand. They are generally found associated with moss or lichen covered branches, with the larvae having been found to be associated with dead twigs. They are likely noctural, feeding on lichen and other plant material at night.Lawrence, John F. and Leschen, Richard A. B.. "11.12. Chalcodryidae Watt, 1974". 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. 567-571. The genera Sirrhas and Onysius, formerly placed in this family, have subsequently been transferred to Promecheilidae.{{Cite journal |last1=Lawrence |first1=John F. |last2=Leschen |first2=Richard A. B. |last3=Zaitsev |first3=Artem |date=2020-03-25 |title=Onysius Broun: The First New Zealand Genus of Promecheilidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) |url=https://bioone.org/journals/the-coleopterists-bulletin/volume-74/issue-1/0010-065X-74.1.27/Onysius-Broun--The-First-New-Zealand-Genus-of-Promecheilidae/10.1649/0010-065X-74.1.27.full |journal=The Coleopterists Bulletin |volume=74 |issue=1 |pages=27 |doi=10.1649/0010-065X-74.1.27 |issn=0010-065X}}