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Biphyllidae

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Biphyllidae
Temporal range: Santonian–Recent
Biphyllus lunatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Cleroidea
Family: Biphyllidae
LeConte, 1861

Biphyllidae, or false skin beetles, are a family of beetles, in the superfamily Cleroidea. They have a cosmopolitan distribution (excluding New Zealand). About 195 species are known. They live under the bark of dead trees and in leaf litter, and are mycophagous, feeding on fungi.[1][2]

Taxonomy

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The family contains the following genera:[3]

References

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  1. ^ Michael A. Ivie (2002). Ross H. Arnett & Michael Charles Thomas (ed.). American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Volume 2 of American Beetles. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  2. ^ Cline, Andrew R. and Shockley, Floyd W.. "10.6. Biphyllidae LeConte, 1861". 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. 306-311.
  3. ^ Biphyllidae Species List at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 15 May 2012.
  4. ^ Makarov, Kirill V.; Perkovsky, Evgeny E. (February 2020). "Smallest and oldest false skin beetle: Paleobiphyllus ponomarenkoi gen. et sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Biphyllidae) from Santonian Taimyr amber, northern Russia". Cretaceous Research. 106: 104238. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104238. S2CID 202903148.