Byrrhidae

Byrrhidae, the pill beetles, is a family of beetles in the superfamily Byrrhoidea. They are generally found in damp habitats within cooler-high latitude regions of both hemispheres. Most byrhhids feed on moss, lichens and algae, though some species feed on vascular plants.Maier, Crystal A., Lawrence, John F. and Leschen, Richard A. B.. "Byrrhidae Latreille, 1804: Coleoptera, Beetles". ''Handbook of Zoology Online'', edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. The oldest undoubted record of the family is '' Lidryops'' from the earliest Late Cretaceous Charentese amber of France, with other less certain records going back to the Middle Jurassic, but these possibly belong to Byrrhoidea. There around 500 extant species in 40 genera.

Taxonomy

There are about 450 species in this family.Lawrence, J. F., Slipinski, A., Jaeger, O., & Pütz, A. (2013)
The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species.
''Zootaxa'' 3745(3), 301-29.

Genera include:Byrrhidae.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
*'' Amphycyrta''
*'' Arctobyrrhus''
*'' Byrrhus''
*'' Chaetophora''
*'' Curimopsis''
*'' Cytilus''
*'' Eusomalia''
*''Exomella''
*''Lioligus''
*'' Lioon''
*'' Listemus''
*'' Morychus''
*'' Porcinolus''
*'' Sierraclava''
*'' Simplocaria''

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Polyphaga families

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