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Cybocephalidae
Cybocephalidae is a family of sap, bark and fungus beetles in the order Coleoptera with a wide global distribution. The type genus ''Cybocephalus'' has more than 200 species in it and the entire family has about 220 species in all. Many species are predators of armoured scale insects (Diaspididae). There are four tarsal segments on all the legs. The body is only slightly longer than wide and very convex and shiny. They are small and about 1 to 3 mm long. The insect can roll into a ball like position with its downward facing head. The tarsomeres are lobed underneath. The family is sometimes treated as a subfamily within the Nitudulidae. Genera Cybocephalidae contains the following genera: * ''Amedissia'' Kirejtshuk & Mantič, 2015 – Central and South America * ''Apastillus'' Kirejtshuk & Mantič, 2015 – Japan * ''Conglobatus'' T. R. Smith, 2020 – Central America, South America and the West Indies. * ''Cybocephalus'' Erichson, 1844 – Worldwide * ''Endrodiellus'' Enröd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cybocephalus
''Cybocephalus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Cybocephalidae, previously belonging to the subfamily Cybocephalinae of the family Nitidulidae, and comprising over 200 described species.Cline, AR, et al. (2014) Molecular phylogeny of Nitidulidae: assessment of subfamilial and tribal classification and formalization of the family Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea). Systematic Entomology, 39: 758-772 Selected species * '' Cybocephalus aegyptianus'' Endrödy-Younga * '' Cybocephalus atomus'' C.Brisout de Barneville, 1866 * '' Cybocephalus balticus'' Kurochkin & Kirejtshuk, 2010 * '' Cybocephalus bourbonnensis'' Vinson, 1959 * '' Cybocephalus brevis'' Grouvelle, 1913 * '' Cybocephalus bulbophthalmus'' Endrödy-Younga, 1962 * '' Cybocephalus californicus'' Horn, 1879 * '' Cybocephalus canariensis'' Endrody-Younga, 1968 * '' Cybocephalus caribaeus'' Smith * '' Cybocephalus championi'' Smith * '' Cybocephalus chlorocapitis'' * '' Cybocephalus decaeni'' Vinson, 1959 * '' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |