Cybocephalidae

Not to be confused with Cynocephalidae.

Cybocephalidae Temporal range: Eocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Cybocephalus fodori
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Cucujoidea
Family:	Cybocephalidae Jacquelin du Val, 1858

Cybocephalidae is a family of sap, bark and fungus beetles in the order Coleoptera with a wide global distribution. The type genus Cybocephalus has more than 200 species in it and the entire family has about 220 species in all. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} Many species are predators of armoured scale insects (Diaspididae). ^[5] There are four tarsal segments on all the legs. The body is only slightly longer than wide and very convex and shiny. They are small and about 1 to 3 mm long. The insect can roll into a ball like position with its downward facing head. The tarsomeres are lobed underneath. The family is sometimes treated as a subfamily within the Nitidulidae. ^[6]

Genera

Cybocephalidae contains the following genera: ^{[7] [8]}

• Amedissia Kirejtshuk & Mantič, 2015 – Central and South America
• Apastillus Kirejtshuk & Mantič, 2015 – Japan
• Conglobatus T. R. Smith, 2020 – Central America, South America and the West Indies.
• Cybocephalus Erichson, 1844 – Worldwide
• Endrodiellus Enrödy-Younga, 1962 – Madagascar
• Eupastillus Lawrence, 2019 – Australia
• Hierronius Enrödy-Younga, 1968 – Madeira and Canary Islands
• Horadion Enrödy-Younga, 1976 – Eastern Africa and southern Asia
• Microthomas T. R. Smith, 2020 – Bolivia
• Pacicephalus Kirejtshuk & Mantič, 2015 – Micronesia
• † Pastillocenicus Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2008 – French Eocene amber
• Pastillodes Enrödy-Younga, 1968 – Northern Africa
• Pastillus Enrödy-Younga, 1962 – Tropical and southern Africa
• Pycnocephalus Sharp, 1891 – Mexico, Central America and South America
• Taxicephomerus Kirejtshuk, 1994 – Vietnam
• Theticephalus Kirejtshuk, 1988 – Northern Africa, Middle East and Central Asia

References

1. "Cybocephalidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
2. "Cybocephalidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
3. "Cybocephalidae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
4. "Browse Cybocephalidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
5. Smith, Trevor Randall; Bailey, Rafique (2007). "A New Species of Cybocephalus (Coleoptera: Cybocephalidae) from Taiwan and a New Distribution Record for Cybocephalus nipponicus". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 61 (4): 503–508. doi:10.1649/0010-065X(2007)61[503:ANSOCC]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR   27571054. S2CID   85997411.
6. Lawrence, John F.; Slipinski, Adam (2013). Australian Beetles. Volume I. Morphology, Classification and Keys. CSIRO. pp. 325–327.
7. Smith, Trevor Randall (25 December 2020). "Description of two new genera and a taxonomic key to the world genera of Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 0834: 1–24.
8. Smith, Trevor Randall (26 March 2021). "A catalogue of the Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) of the world". Insecta Mundi. 0858: 1–16.

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.