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Tetratomidae Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Eustrophopsis bicolor
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Tenebrionoidea
Family:	Tetratomidae Billberg, 1820

Tetratomidae is a small family of beetles sometimes called polypore fungus beetles. The family consists of several genera, most of which used to be in the family Melandryidae. Tetratomidae can be found worldwide.

Their food consists of fruiting bodies of hymenomycete fungi.

Genera

These 12 genera belong to the family Tetratomidae:

• Cyanopenthe Nikitsky, 1998
• Eustrophopsis Champion, 1889
• Eustrophus Illiger, 1807
• Hallomenus Panzer, 1794
• Holostrophus Horn, 1888
• Mycetoma Dejean, 1834
• Penthe Newman, 1838
• Pisenus Casey, 1900
• Pseudoholostrophus Nikitsky, 1983
• Synstrophus Seidlitz, 1898
• Tetratoma Fabricius, 1790
• Triphyllia Reitter, 1898

Fossil genera

• Subfamily Eustrophinae
  • Tribe Eustrophini
    • †Allostrophus Hsiao et al., 2018 (Cenomanian Burmese amber, Myanmar)
    • †Thescelostrophus Yu et al., 2016 (Burmese amber)
  • Tribe Holostrophini
    • †Synchrotronia Soriano & Pollock, 2014 (Cenomanian Charentese amber, France)
  • Tribe incertae sedis
    • †Cretosynstrophus Cai et al., 2016 (Burmese amber)
• Subfamily Hallomeninae
  • †Pseudohallomenus Nikitsky, 1977 (Santonian, Taimyr amber, Russia)

References

1. "Tetratomidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
2. "Family Tetratomidae - Polypore Fungus Beetles - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
3. ^ "Tetratomidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
4. ^ "Tetratomidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
5. ^ "Browse Tetratomidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-21.

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