Murmidiidae

{{Short description|Family of beetles}}

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| taxon = Murmidiidae

| display_parents = 3

| authority = Jacquelin du Val, 1858

| subdivision = See text

| image = Murmidius ovalis (Beck, 1817).png

| image_caption = Murmidius ovalis

}}

Murmidiidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Coccinelloidea,{{Cite web |title=Murmidiidae Family Information |url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/1117186 |website=BugGuide.net |access-date=2018-02-23}}{{Cite web |title=Murmidiidae Report |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=706116 |website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System |access-date=2018-02-23}}{{Cite web |title=Browse Murmidiidae |url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/d87dacaf3ee5e42b54522c2f75bb1d14 |website=Catalogue of Life |access-date=2018-02-23}} formerly included within the family Cerylonidae. The family contains thirty-four described species in four genera, which are found worldwide.{{Cite journal |last=Jałoszyński |first=Paweł |last2=Ślipiński |first2=Adam |date=8 March 2022 |title=Revision of the family Murmidiidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) |url=https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5109.1.1 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=5109 |issue=1 |pages=1–102 |doi=10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5109.1.1|url-access=subscription }} They are typically found under the bark of recently dead trees, and are thought to be mycophagous. The species Murmidius ovalis, found worldwide, is noted as a pest of stored food.Ślipinśki, Adam and Lawrence, John F.. "10.29. Cerylonidae Billberg, 1820". 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. 422–432.

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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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