Mesocoelopodinae

Mesocoelopodinae
Mesocoelopus collaris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Family:	Ptinidae
Subfamily:	Mesocoelopodinae Mulsant & Rey, 1864
Synonyms [1]
Mesothinae Portevin, 1931 Tricoryninae White, 1971

Tricorynus herbarius

Mesocoelopus niger

Mesocoelopodinae is a subfamily of death-watch and spider beetles in the family Ptinidae. There are at least 4 genera and 100 described species in Mesocoelopodinae. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

The subfamily Mesocoelopodinae, along with Anobiinae and several others, were formerly considered members of the family Anobiidae, but the family name has since been changed to Ptinidae. ^{[5] [3] [4] [2]}

Genera

These four genera belong to the subfamily Mesocoelopodinae:

• Cryptorama Fall, 1905 ^{i c g}
• Mesocoelopus Jacquelin du Val, 1860 ^{i c g b}
• Neosothes White, 1967 ^{i g}
• Tricorynus Waterhouse, 1849 ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, ^[1] c = Catalogue of Life, ^[6] g = GBIF, ^[7] b = Bugguide.net ^[2]

References

1. "Mesocoelopodinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
2. "Mesocoelopodinae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
3. Bell, Karen Leanne; Philips, T. Keith (2011). "Molecular systematics and evolution of the Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) and related families" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 165: 88–108. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00792.x .
4. Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4: Elateroidea – Derodontoidea – Bostrichoidea – Lymexyloidea – Cleroidea – Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN   978-87-88757-67-5.
5. Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3088472 . PMID   21594053.
6. "Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2018-08-29.
7. "GBIF" . Retrieved 2018-08-29.

Further reading

• Arango, Rachel A.; Young, Daniel K. (2012). "Death-watch and spider beetles of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Ptinidae)" (PDF). General Technical Report FPL-GTR-209.
• 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. ISBN   978-084930954-0.
• Borowski, Jerzy; Wegrzynowicz, Piotr (2007). World Catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera). Wydawnictwo Mantis. ISBN   978-839261821-8.
• Lawrence, J.F.; Newton Jr, A.F. (1995). Pakaluk, James; Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam (eds.). Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Vol. 2. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. pp. 779–1006. ISBN   978-83-85192-34-3.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 . ISBN   978-066510055-0 – via BHL.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [First published 1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   978-039591089-4 – via Internet Archive.

External links

• Media related to Mesocoelopodinae at Wikimedia Commons