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| Species: | E. cingalensis |
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Eumorphus quadriguttatus, commonly known as Four spotted handsome fungus beetle, [1] is a species of handsome fungus beetle found in India, Andaman Islands, Sri Lanka and Korea. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Nominate subspecies has following characteristics. A medium-sized beetle with a length of about 10 to 12 mm. Body black, and moderately shiny. Antenna and legs are black whereas the part of the femur is reddish. Each elytron possess two large, pale yellowish, nearly round or slightly transverse spots. In antennae, the last 3 antenomeres are flat and broad. Apical margin of elytra in male is broadly rounded whereas female with clearly prolonged. [6] The hairy pad of male is only restricted to the median part of the last two or three abdominal sternites. The subspecies pulchripes has a bright coral-red femora except in the basal half. [7]
Adult beetles are known to destroy Piper betle plantations. [8]
Four subspecies have been identified.
Endomychidae, or handsome fungus beetles, is a family of beetles with representatives found in all biogeographic realms. There are around 120 genera and 1300 species. The family was established based on the type genus Endomychus, a genus erected in 1795 by Panzer which was applied to a species that Linnaeus called Chrysomela coccinea. As the common name suggests, Endomychidae feed on fungi. Crowson, in his influential treatment of the beetles, placed the family within the Cucujoidea. They have a tarsal formal of 4-4-4 or 3-3-3 and the wings lack a closed radial cell. The second antennal segment has a sensory appendage that is as long as the third antennal segment. The family has also been grouped with the Coccinellidae in a group called the Trimera for having pseudotrimerous tarsi. A 2015 molecular phylogeny study found that the Cucujoidea were found to be non-monophyletic and the Endomychidae was refined with the removal of the Anamorphinae from within the family and elevated to the status of a full family, Anamorphidae. Mycetaeinae and Eupsilobiinae were also found not to belong within the clades of the core Endomychidae, and likewise reclassified into the families Mycetaeidae and Eupsilobiidae.
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