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Biphyllidae Temporal range: Santonian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Biphyllus lunatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Cleroidea
Family:	Biphyllidae LeConte, 1861

Biphyllidae, or false skin beetles, are a family of beetles, in the superfamily Cleroidea. They have a cosmopolitan distribution (excluding New Zealand). About 195 species are known. They live under the bark of dead trees and in leaf litter, and are mycophagous, feeding on fungi.

Taxonomy

The family contains the following genera:

• Althaesia Pascoe, 1860
• Anchorius Casey, 1900
• Anobocaelus Sharp, 1902
• Biphyllus Dejean, 1821
• Diplocoelus Guérin-Méneville, 1836
• Euderopus Sharp, 1900
• Gonicoelus Sharp, 1900
• †Paleobiphyllus Makarov and Perkovsky 2019 Taimyr amber, Russia, Late Cretaceous (Santonian)

References

1. Michael A. Ivie (2002). Ross H. Arnett & Michael Charles Thomas (ed.). American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Volume 2 of American Beetles. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
2. Cline, Andrew R. and Shockley, Floyd W.. "10.6. Biphyllidae LeConte, 1861". Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 306-311.
3. Biphyllidae Species List at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 15 May 2012.
4. Makarov, Kirill V.; Perkovsky, Evgeny E. (February 2020). "Smallest and oldest false skin beetle: Paleobiphyllus ponomarenkoi gen. et sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Biphyllidae) from Santonian Taimyr amber, northern Russia". Cretaceous Research. 106: 104238. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104238. S2CID 202903148.

• Biphyllidae
• Cleroidea
• Polyphaga families