Zopheridae

{{Short description|Family of beetles}}

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| oldest_fossil = Cenomanian

| image = Zopherus nodulosus (9170183893).jpg

| image_caption = Ironclad beetle, Zopherus nodulosus (Zopherinae)

| image2 = Aprostoma planifrons Westwood, 1869 (24744652019).png

| image2_caption = Aprostoma planifrons (Colydiinae)

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| taxon = Zopheridae

| authority = Solier, 1834

| subdivision = Colydiinae - cylindrical bark beetles

Latometinae

Monommatinae

Pycnomerinae

Usechinae

Zopherinae - ironclad beetles

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File:Aulonium ruficorne (Olivier, 1790) (14425954610).png ruficorne (Colydiinae)]]

Zopheridae is a family of beetles belonging to Tenebrionoidea. It has grown considerably in recent years as the members of two other families are now included (Monommatidae and Colydiidae), as subfamilies or (in the former case) even as tribe of subfamily Zopherinae. Some authors accept up to six subfamilies here, while others merge all except the Colydiinae into the Zopherinae.

The family has approximately 190 genera and 1700 species, which are found worldwide. A large number of members of the family feed on rotting wood or fungus associated with rotting wood, though some members of Colydiinae are predatory, or feed on living plant tissue such as roots, stems, flower stalks and fruit.Ślipinśki, Adam and Lawrence, John F.. "11.9. Zopheridae Solier, 1834". 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. 548-559

The oldest fossils of the family are Paleoendeitoma (subfamily Colydiinae, tribe Synchitini) and Cretomysteria from the early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Burmese amber from Myanmar.{{Cite journal|last1=Deng|first1=Congshuang|last2=Ślipiński|first2=Adam|last3=Ren|first3=Dong|last4=Pang|first4=Hong|date=October 2017|title=The first Mesozoic colydiid beetles (Coleoptera: Zopheridae: Colydiinae) from the Upper Cretaceous amber of Myanmar|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0195667116303317|journal=Cretaceous Research|language=en|volume=78|pages=71–77|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.04.010|bibcode=2017CrRes..78...71D }}

See also

Genera

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Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

References

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{{Cite web| title=Zopheridae Report

| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=678369

| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System

| access-date=2018-04-23

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{{Cite web| title=Browse Zopheridae

| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/78ffcafee96cffdddd1cd90848d5b758

| website=Catalogue of Life

| access-date=2018-04-23

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{{Cite web| title=Zopheridae

| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4766

| website=GBIF

| access-date=2018-04-23

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{{Cite web| title=Zopheridae Family Information

| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/5779

| website=BugGuide.net

| access-date=2018-04-23

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Category:Beetle families

Category:Tenebrionoidea