Cneoglossidae 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
Byrrhoidea, containing nine described species in a single genus, ''Cneoglossa,'' which are native to the
Neotropics
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
from Mexico to Brazil. The larvae develop inside rotting submerged branches found in small fast flowing shallow streams.
[Costa, Cleide, Vanin, Sergio Antonio and Ide, Sergio. "Cneoglossidae Guérin-Méneville, 1843: Coleoptera, Beetles". ''Handbook of Zoology Online'', edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.]
Taxonomy
* ''
Cneoglossa brevis''
Champion, 1897
* ''
Cneoglossa collaris''
Guérin-Méneville, 1849
* ''
Cneoglossa elongata''
Pic, 1916
* ''
Cneoglossa gournellei''
Pic, 1916
* ''
Cneoglossa lampyroides''
Champion, 1897
* ''
Cneoglossa longipennis''
(Pic, 1915)
* ''
Cneoglossa peruviana''
Pic, 1916
* ''
Cneoglossa rufifrons''
Pic, 1916
* ''
Cneoglossa testacericollis''
Pic, 1916
References
Polyphaga families
Byrrhoidea
Monogeneric insect families
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