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Corylophidae is a family of minute hooded beetles, sometimes called minute fungus beetles, in the superfamily
Coccinelloidea Coccinelloidea is a superfamily of beetles in the order Coleoptera, formerly included in the superfamily Cucujoidea. There are more than 10,000 species in Coccinelloidea, including more than 6000 in the lady beetle family Coccinellidae. Morphol ...
. There are about 18 genera and at least 120 described species in Corylophidae. They feed on microfungi such as molds, and are often found associated with bark, as well as in leaf litter and other decaying vegetation. In older literature, the family name was often given as Orthoperidae.


Genera

* '' Aenigmaticum'' Matthews, 1888 i c g b * '' Aposericoderus'' Paulian, 1950 g * '' Arthrolipes'' g * '' Arthrolips'' Wollaston, 1854 i c g b * '' Clypastraea'' Haldeman, 1842 i c g b * '' Clypastrea'' g * '' Corylophus'' Leach, 1833 g * '' Foadia'' Pakaluk, 1985 i c g * '' Gloeosoma'' Wollaston, 1854 i c g b * '' Holopsis'' Broun, 1883 i c g b * '' Hoplicnema'' Matthews, 1899 g * '' Microstagetus'' Wollaston, 1861 i c g b * '' Orthoperus'' Stephens, 1829 i c g b * '' Rypobius'' LeConte, 1852 i c g b * '' Sericoderus'' Stephens, 1829 i c g b * '' Stanus'' Ślipiński, Tomaszewska & Lawrence, 2009 g * '' Teplinus'' Pakaluk, Slipinski & Lawrence, 1994 g * '' Weirus'' Slipinski, Tomaszewska and Lawrence, 2009 i c g *'' Xenostanus'' Li et al. 2022
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, mid Cretaceous (latest
Albian The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous Epoch/ Series. Its approximate time range is 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 100.5 ± 0 ...
- earliest Cenomanian) Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net


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External links

* Coccinelloidea Polyphaga families {{Polyphaga-stub