Mesocoelopodinae

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]

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

Tricorynus herbarius

Mesocoelopus niger

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. Linnean Society of London. 165: 88–108. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00792.x.
4. Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). "Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera". Volume 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. Pensoft Publishers (88): 1–972. 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. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.
• 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 978-0849309540.
• Borowski, Jerzy; Wegrzynowicz, Piotr (2007). World Catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera). Wydawnictwo Mantis. ISBN 9788392618218.
• 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. 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. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0395910894.

External links

• Media related to Mesocoelopodinae at Wikimedia Commons