Anamorphidae

Anamorphidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Coccinelloidea, formerly included within the family Endomychidae.[1] They are found worldwide. Like enchomyids, they are fungivores, with adult and larval stages thought to exclusively consume fungal spores.[2]

Anamorphidae
Temporal range:
Symbiotes latus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Coccinelloidea
Family: Anamorphidae
Strohecker, 1953
Synonyms
  • Acritosomatinae Pakaluk and Slipinski, 1995

Genera

After[3]

  • Aclemmysa Reitter, 1904
  • Acritosoma Pakaluk and Slipinski, 1995
  • Afralexia Strohecker, 1967
  • Anagaricophilus Arrow, 1922
  • Anamorphus LeConte, 1878
  • Anamycetaea Strohecker, 1975c
  • Asymbius Gorham, 1896
  • Austroclemmus Strohecker, 1953a
  • Baeochelys Strohecker, 1974b
  • Bryodryas Strohecker, 1974d
  • Bystodes Strohecker, 1953a
  • Bystus Guérin-Méneville, 1857
  • Catapotia Thomson, 1860
  • Clemmus Hampe, 1850
  • Coryphus Csiki, 1902b
  • Cyrtomychus Kolbe, 1910
  • Cysalemma Dajoz, 1970b
  • Dexialia Sasaji, 1970
  • Dialexia Gorham, 1887–99
  • Endocoelus Gorham, 1886
  • Erotendomychus Lea, 1922
  • Exysma Gorham, 1891
  • Exysmodes Dajoz, 1970a
  • Geoendomychus Lea, 1922
  • Idiophyes Blackburn, 1895
  • Loeblia Dajoz, 1972a
  • Malagaricophilus Strohecker, 1974d
  • Micropsephodes Champion, 1913
  • Micropsephus Gorham, 1891
  • Mychothenus Strohecker, 1953a
  • Papuella Strohecker, 1956a
  • Pararhymbus Arrow, 1920b
  • Parasymbius Arrow, 1920a
  • Rhymbillus Reichensperger, 1915
  • Rhymbomicrus Casey, 1916
  • Symbiotes Redtenbacher, 1847

Extinct genera and a species of Symbiotes are known from Eocene aged Baltic and Bitterfeld amber.[4]

References
  1. Robertson, James A.; Ślipiński, Adam; Moulton, Matthew; Shockley, Floyd W.; Giorgi, Adriano; Lord, Nathan P.; Mckenna, Duane D.; Tomaszewska, Wioletta; Forrester, Juanita; Miller, Kelly B.; Whiting, Michael F.; Mchugh, Joseph V. (October 2015). "Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia): Systematics of Cucujoidea and Coccinelloidea". Systematic Entomology. 40 (4): 745–778. doi:10.1111/syen.12138. S2CID 55206626.
  2. Tomaszewska, Wioletta. "10.32. Endomychidae Leach, 1815". 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. 442-454.
  3. Shockley, F. W.; Tomaszewska, K. W.; Mchugh, J. V. (2009-02-04). "An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae)". Zootaxa. 1999 (1): 1–113. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1999.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  4. Alekseev, Vitalii I.; Tomaszewska, Wioletta (2018). "New handsome fungus beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Anamorphidae, Endomychidae) from European amber of the Upper Eocene". Palaeontologia Electronica. 21 (1). doi:10.26879/832.

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.


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