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Trogossitidae sp.

Trogossitidae sp.


Family: Trogossitidae
Order: Coleoptera
Class: Insecta
Phylum / Division: Arthropoda
Kingdom: Animalia

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Trogossitidae, also known as bark-gnawing beetles, are a small family in the superfamily Cleroidea. Many taxa formerly within this family have been removed (as of 2019) to other families, such as Lophocateridae, Peltidae, Protopeltidae, Rentoniidae, and Thymalidae. Members of the family are generally predatory and/or feed on fungi, both in adult and larval stages, and are generally associated with wood, being found under bark or inside bored tunnel galleries. There are about 400 species in 25 genera in the family under the new, restricted circumscription, as opposed to 600 species in over 50 genera in the old definition. The oldest fossil assignable to the modern, more restricted definition of the family is Microtrogossita from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar, which has close affinities to the Trogossitini, indicating that the family had already considerably diversified by this time.

Genera: 
  • Acalanthis Erichson, 1844
  • Airora Reitter, 1876
  • Alindria Erichson
  • Anacypta Illiger
  • Calanthosoma Reitter
  • Calitys Thomson, 1859
  • Corticotomus Sharp, 1891
  • Dupontiella Spinola
  • Egolia Erichson, 1842
  • Elestora Pascoe
  • Eupycnus Sharp
  • Euschaefferia Leng, 1920
  • Gymnocheilis Dejean
  • Kolibacia Leschen & Lackner, 2013
  • Larinotus Carter & Zeck
  • Leipaspis Wollaston, 1862
  • Leperina Erichson, 1844
  • Melambia Erichson
  • Narcisa Pascoe
  • Necrobiopsis Crowson, 1964
  • Nemozoma Latreille, 1804
  • Paracalanthis Crowson
  • Parallelodera Fairmaire, 1881
  • Phanodesta Reitter
  • Seidlitzella Jakobson
  • Temnoscheila Westwood, 1830
  • Tenebroides Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783
  • Xenoglena Reitter

Source: Wikipedia, article Trogossitidae sp.. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 18/07/2026.





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Photography ID: 575682
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Las Calles
Córdoba
Argentina
02/10/2024
Eduardo Nadal



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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
201052110/02/2024ArgentinaCórdobaLas CallesEduardo Nadal
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Trogossitidae sp. – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 24/09/2026.