Lophocateridae is a family of

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

s in the superfamily

Cleroidea Cleroidea is a small superfamily of beetles containing over 10,000 species. Most of the members of the group are somewhat slender, often with fairly soft, flexible elytra, and typically hairy or scaly. Description Cleroidea is defined by the f ...

, formerly included in the

Trogossitidae Trogossitidae, also known as bark-gnawing beetles, are a small family in the superfamily Cleroidea. Many taxa formerly within this family have been removed (as of 2019) to other families, such as Lophocateridae, Peltidae, Protopeltidae, Rentoni ...

. Members of the group have a variety of ecologies, including as predators on other insects, as fungivores, or are phytophagous.

Genera

* '' Afrocyrona'' Kolibáč * '' Ancyrona'' Reitter, 1876 * '' Antillipeltis'' Lawrence, Leschen & Slipinski, 2014 * '' Colydiopeltis'' Slipinski * '' Eronyxa'' Reitter, 1876 * '' Grynocharina'' Reitter * '' Grynocharis'' Thomson, 1859 * '' Grynoma'' Sharp * '' Indopeltis'' Crowson, 1966 * '' Leptonyxa'' Reitter * '' Lophocateres'' Olliff, 1883 * '' Lycoptis'' Casey, 1890 * '' Neaspis'' Pascoe * '' Parapeltis'' Slipinski * '' Peltonyxa'' Reitter * '' Promanus'' Sharp, 1877 * '' Trichocateres'' Kolibác, 2010 * †'' Sinosoronia'' Zhang 1992 Laiyang Formation, China, Early Cretaceous ( Aptian) *''† Mesolophocateres'' Yu, Leschen & Ślipiński 2021

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...

, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous ( Cenomanian) *''† Parayixianteres'' Yu, Leschen & Ślipiński 2021 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian

References

Cleroidea Polyphaga families {{Cleroidea-stub