Anamorphidae

Anamorphidae Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Symbiotes latus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Coccinelloidea
Family:	Anamorphidae Strohecker, 1953
Synonyms
Acritosomatinae Pakaluk and Slipinski, 1995

Anamorphidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Coccinelloidea, formerly included within the family Endomychidae. ^[1] They are found worldwide. Like enchomyids, they are fungivores, with adult and larval stages thought to exclusively consume fungal spores. ^[2]

Genera

After ^[3]

• Aclemmysa Reitter, 1904
• Acritosoma Pakaluk and Slipinski, 1995
• Afralexia Strohecker, 1967
• Anagaricophilus Arrow, 1922
• Anamorphus LeConte, 1878
• Anamycetaea Strohecker, 1975c
• Asymbius Gorham, 1896
• Austroclemmus Strohecker, 1953a
• Baeochelys Strohecker, 1974b
• Bryodryas Strohecker, 1974d
• Bystodes Strohecker, 1953a
• Bystus Guérin-Méneville, 1857
• Catapotia Thomson, 1860
• Clemmus Hampe, 1850
• Coryphus Csiki, 1902b
• Cyrtomychus Kolbe, 1910
• Cysalemma Dajoz, 1970b
• Dexialia Sasaji, 1970
• Dialexia Gorham, 1887–99
• Endocoelus Gorham, 1886
• Erotendomychus Lea, 1922
• Exysma Gorham, 1891
• Exysmodes Dajoz, 1970a
• Geoendomychus Lea, 1922
• Idiophyes Blackburn, 1895
• Loeblia Dajoz, 1972a
• Malagaricophilus Strohecker, 1974d
• Micropsephodes Champion, 1913
• Micropsephus Gorham, 1891
• Mychothenus Strohecker, 1953a
• Papuella Strohecker, 1956a
• Pararhymbus Arrow, 1920b
• Parasymbius Arrow, 1920a
• Rhymbillus Reichensperger, 1915
• Rhymbomicrus Casey, 1916
• Symbiotes Redtenbacher, 1847

Extinct genera and a species of Symbiotes are known from Eocene aged Baltic and Bitterfeld amber. ^[4] Members of the extinct genus Palaeosymbius are known from the Late Cretaceous Burmese amber from Myanmar. ^[5]

References

1. Robertson, James A.; Ślipiński, Adam; Moulton, Matthew; Shockley, Floyd W.; Giorgi, Adriano; Lord, Nathan P.; Mckenna, Duane D.; Tomaszewska, Wioletta; Forrester, Juanita; Miller, Kelly B.; Whiting, Michael F.; Mchugh, Joseph V. (October 2015). "Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia): Systematics of Cucujoidea and Coccinelloidea" . Systematic Entomology. 40 (4): 745–778. doi:10.1111/syen.12138. S2CID   55206626.
2. Tomaszewska, Wioletta. "10.32. Endomychidae Leach, 1815". 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. 442-454.
3. Shockley, F. W.; Tomaszewska, K. W.; Mchugh, J. V. (2009-02-04). "An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae)" . Zootaxa. 1999 (1): 1–113. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1999.1.1. ISSN   1175-5334.
4. Alekseev, Vitalii I.; Tomaszewska, Wioletta (2018). "New handsome fungus beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Anamorphidae, Endomychidae) from European amber of the Upper Eocene". Palaeontologia Electronica. 21 (1). doi: 10.26879/832 .
5. Arriaga-Varela, Emmanuel; Szawaryn, Karol; Zhou, Yu-Lingzi; Bruthansová, Jana; Li, Yan-Da; Tomaszewska, Wioletta (2024). "Early evolution of Anamorphidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea): the oldest known anamorphid beetles from Upper Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar and the first report of potential glandular pores in the family". Cladistics. doi:10.1111/cla.12576. PMID   38573084.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press.
• Kellogg, Vernon L. (1905). American insects. H. Holt.
• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. Vol. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN   0-8493-0212-9.
• Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.
• Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency.
• Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN   978-1402062421.
• Gillott, Cedric (1980). Entomology . Plenum Press. ISBN   0-306-40366-8.
• Donald J. Borror; Roger Tory Peterson; Richard E. White (1998). A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Papp, Charles S. (1984). Introduction to North American Beetles. Entomography Pubns.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin.