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Promecheilidae
Specimen of Onysius anomalus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Tenebrionoidea
Family:	Promecheilidae Lacordaire, 1859
Synonyms
Perimylopidae St. George, 1939

Promecheilidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. Perimylopidae is considered a synonym. They are found in southern South America and associated archipelagos like South Georgia and the Falklands, New Zealand and Tasmania. Some species are associated tree ferns and moss-covered dead wood, and other forested habitats, while others are associated with peat bogs, grasslands and coastal habitats. They are probably phytophagus, feeding on lichen, moss, and other plant material.

Adult beetles have an 11 segmented antenna, the head is narrowed behind the eye. They have a tarsal formula of 5-5-4. The family is part of a clade that includes the Archeocrypticidae, Mycetophagidae, and Ulodidae.

Genera

Genera in the family Promecheilidae include:

• Chanopterus Boheman, 1858 (Tierra del Fuego)
• Hydromedion Waterhouse, 1876 (Tierra del Fuego and South Georgia)
• Melytra Pascoe, 1869 (Tasmania)
• Onysius Broun, 1886 (New Zealand, formerly placed in Chalcodryidae)
• Parahelops Waterhouse, 1876 (southern Argentina and Chile, Falklands)
• Perimylops Müller, 1884 (South Georgia)
• Promecheilus Solier, 1851,2018 (Chile)
• Pseudodarwinella Ukrainsky, 2009 (=Darwinella Enderlein, 1912) (Falklands)
• Sirrhas Champion, 1893 (Tasmania)

References

1. ^ "Promecheilidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
2. Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
3. ^ Watt, J. C. (2009). "The families Perimylopidae and Dacoderidae (Coleoptera, Heteromera)". Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy. 36 (7–8): 109–118. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1967.tb00545.x.
4. ^ Lawrence, John F.; Leschen, Richard A. B.; Zaitsev, Artem (2020-03-25). "Onysius Broun: The First New Zealand Genus of Promecheilidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 74 (1): 27. doi:10.1649/0010-065X-74.1.27. ISSN 0010-065X. S2CID 214736157.
5. ^ Lawrence, John F., Ślipinśki, Adam and Elgueta, Mario. "11.11. Promecheilidae Lacordaire 1859". 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. 563-567.
6. Gunter, Nicole L.; Levkaničová, Zuzana; Weir, Tom H.; Ślipiński, Adam; Cameron, Stephen L.; Bocak, Ladislav (2014). "Towards a phylogeny of the Tenebrionoidea (Coleoptera)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 79: 305–312. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.05.028. PMID 25053567.
7. Seago, Ainsley; Lawrence, J.F.; Slipinski, A. (2014). "Australian Beetles Volume 1: Morphology, Classification and Keys". Systematic Entomology. 40: 288–289. doi:10.1111/syen.12104.

Further reading

• Bouchard, P.; Bousquet, Y.; Davies, A.; Sikes, D. (2013). "Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska". ZooKeys (360): 1–44. doi:10.3897/zookeys.360.4742. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3867111. PMID 24363590.
• Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38811. ISBN 978-0665070778.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.

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