Tetratomidae
{{Short description|Family of beetles}}
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| oldest_fossil = Cenomanian
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| image_caption = Eustrophopsis bicolor
| taxon = Tetratomidae
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| authority = Billberg, 1820
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File:Tetratoma fungorum (Fabricius, 1790).png
Tetratomidae is a small family of beetles sometimes called polypore fungus beetles. The family consists of several genera, most of which used to be in the family Melandryidae. Tetratomidae can be found worldwide.
Their food consists of fruiting bodies of hymenomycete fungi.{{Cite web|url=http://bugguide.net/node/view/4514|title=Family Tetratomidae - Polypore Fungus Beetles - BugGuide.Net|website=bugguide.net|access-date=2016-08-08}}
Genera
These 12 genera belong to the family Tetratomidae:
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- Cyanopenthe {{small|Nikitsky, 1998}}
- Eustrophopsis {{small|Champion, 1889}}
- Eustrophus {{small|Illiger, 1807}}
- Hallomenus {{small|Panzer, 1794}}
- Holostrophus {{small|Horn, 1888}}
- Mycetoma {{small|Dejean, 1834}}
- Penthe {{small|Newman, 1838}}
- Pisenus {{small|Casey, 1900}}
- Pseudoholostrophus {{small|Nikitsky, 1983}}
- Synstrophus {{small|Seidlitz, 1898}}
- Tetratoma {{small|Fabricius, 1790}}
- Triphyllia {{small|Reitter, 1898}}
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= Fossil genera =
- Subfamily Eustrophinae
- Tribe Eustrophini
- †Allostrophus {{small|Hsiao et al., 2018}} (Cenomanian Burmese amber, Myanmar)
- †Thescelostrophus {{small|Yu et al., 2016}} (Burmese amber)
- Tribe Holostrophini
- †Synchrotronia {{small|Soriano & Pollock, 2014}} (Cenomanian Charentese amber, France)
- Tribe incertae sedis
- †Cretosynstrophus {{small|Cai et al., 2016}} (Burmese amber)
- Subfamily Hallomeninae
- †Pseudohallomenus {{small|Nikitsky, 1977}} (Santonian, Taimyr amber, Russia)
References
{{Wikispecies|Tetratomidae}}
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{{Cite web| title=Tetratomidae Report
| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=678367
| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| access-date=2018-04-21
}}
{{Cite web| title=Browse Tetratomidae
| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/ac267347315ec1e8832999f53dcb9519
| website=Catalogue of Life
| access-date=2018-04-21
}}
{{Cite web| title=Tetratomidae
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4764
| website=GBIF
| access-date=2018-04-21
}}
{{Cite web| title=Tetratomidae Family Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/4514
| website=BugGuide.net
| access-date=2018-04-21
}}
}}
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