Jacobsoniidae

Jacobsoniidae
Saphophagus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Bostrichiformia
Superfamily: Bostrichoidea
Family: Jacobsoniidae
Heller, 1926

Jacobsoniidae is a family of beetles. The larvae and adults live under bark, in plant litter, fungi, bat guano and rotten wood.[1] It is a small family with 23 described species in three genera:[2]

Description

Members of this family have a small body size (0.7-2.1mm in length).[1] Their bodies are narrow, and are four times as long as they are wide.[1] They are often a yellowish-brown in color.[1]

Distribution

Members of this family have been found in Florida, South America, Central America, Polynesia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia.[1]

Taxonomy

  • Genus Sarothrias Grouvelle, 1918
    • Sarothrias amabilis Slipinski & Lobl, 1995
    • Sarothrias audax Slipinski & Lobl, 1995
    • Sarothrias bournei Slipinski, 1986
    • Sarothrias crowsoni Lobl & Burckhardt, 1988
    • Sarothrias dimerus (Heller, 1926)
    • Sarothrias eximius Grouvelle, 1918
    • Sarothrias fijianus Lobl & Burckhardt, 1988
    • Sarothrias hygrophilus Pal, 1998
    • Sarothrias indicus Dajoz, 1978
    • Sarothrias lawrencei Lobl & Burckhardt, 1988
    • Sarothrias morokanus Poggi, 1991
    • Sarothrias pacificus Slipinski & Lobl, 1995
    • Sarothrias papuanus Slipinski, 1986
    • Sarothrias sinicus Bi & Chen, 2015[3]
  • Genus Saphophagus Sharp, 1886
    • Saphophagus minutus Sharp, 1886
  • Genus Derolathrus Sharp, 1908
    • Derolathrus anophthalmus (Franz, 1969)
    • Derolathrus atomus Sharp, 1908
    • Derolathrus cavernicolus Peck, 2010[4]
    • Derolathrus ceylonicus (Sen Gupta, 1979)
    • Derolathrus insularis (Dajoz, 1973)
    • Derolathrus parvulus (Rucker, 1983)
    • Derolathrus sharpi Grouvelle, 1912
    • Derolathrus troglophilus (Sen Gupta, 1979)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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. ↑ Hava, J. & Lobl, I. (2005). "A world catalogue of the family Jacobsoniidae (Coleoptera)." Studies and Reports of District Museum Prague-East. Taxonomical Series 1. 1 (1-2): 89-94.
  3. ↑ Bi, W.-X.; Chen, C.-C.; Lin, M.-Y. 2015: First record of Jacobsoniidae (Coleoptera) from China with description of a new species of Sarothrias Grouvelle. ZooKeys, 496: 53-60. doi:10.3897/zookeys.496.8620
  4. ↑ Peck, S.B. 2010: Derolathrus cavernicolus n. sp., a beetle family new for North America (Coleoptera: Jacobsoniidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 103(1): 1–6. doi:10.1603/008.103.0101


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