Anobiidae

Taxobox


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Fan-bearing wood-borer, "Hedobia imperialis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Coleoptera
infraordo = Bostrichiformia
superfamilia = Bostrichoidea
familia = Anobiidae
familia_authority = Fleming, 1821
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

Anobiidae is a family of beetles. The larvae of a number of species bore into wood, earning the name "woodworm" or "wood borer". A few species are pests, causing damage to wooden furniture and house structures, notably the death watch beetle, "Xestobium rufovillosum", and the common furniture beetle, "Anobium punctatum".

It includes the subgroups:
* Anobiinae Kirby, 1837
** "Anobium" Fabricius, 1775 (furniture beetles)
** "Gastrallus" Jacquelin du Val, 1860
** "Hadrobregmus" Thomson, 1859
** "Microbregma" Seidlitz, 1889
** "Oligomerus" Redtenbacher, 1849
** "Priobium" Motschulsky, 1845
** "Stegobium" Motschulsky, 1860 (drugstore beetles)
* Dorcatominae Thomson, 1859
** "Anitys" Thomson, 1863
** "Caenocara" Thomson, 1859
** "Dorcatoma" Herbst, 1792
** "Stagetus" Wollaston, 1861
* Dryophilinae LeConte, 1861
** "Dryophilus" Chevrolat, 1832
** "Grynobius" Thomson, 1859
* Ernobiinae Pic, 1912
** "Episernus" Thomson, 1863
** "Ernobius" Thomson, 1859
** "Ochina" Sturm, 1826 (ivy boring beetles)
** "Xestobium" Motschulsky,1845 (death watch beetles)
* Eucradinae Le Conte, 1861
** "Hedobia" Dejean, 1821
* Ptilininae Shuckard, 1840
** "Pseudoptilinus" Leiler, 1963
** "Ptilinus" Müller, 1764
* Ptininae Latreille, 1802 (spider beetles)
** "Eupauloecus" Mulsant & Rey, 1868
** "Gibbium" Scopoli, 1777
** "Mezium" Curtis, 1828
** "Niptus" Boieldieu, 1856
** "Pseudeurostus" Heyden, 1906
** "Ptinus" Linnaeus, 1767
** "Sphaericus" Wollaston, 1854
** "Trigonogenius" Solier, 1849
* Xyletininae Gistel, 1856
** "Lasioderma" Stephens, 1835 (cigarette beetles)
** "Xyletinus" Latreille, 1809