Cucujidae

Cucujidae
Cucujus cinnaberinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Cucujoidea
Family:	Cucujidae Latreille, 1802
Genera
Cucujus Palaestes Pediacus Platisus

The Cucujidae, sometimes called flat bark beetles are a family of distinctively flat beetles found worldwide under the bark of dead and live trees. The family consists of about 40 species in four genera.

Cucujidae have elongate parallel-side bodies ranging from 6 to 25 mm in length. Most are brown colored, while others are black, reddish or yellow. Heads are triangular in shape, with filiform antennae of 11 antennomeres, and large mandibles. The pronotum is narrower than the head.

Both larvae and adult live under the bark, otherwise little is known of their habits.

The family was formerly larger, with subfamilies Laemophloeinae, Silvaninae, and Passandrinae (and some tenebrionoid genera mixed in), but recent revisions have raised the subfamilies to family status.

References

• Michael C. Thomas, "Cucujidae", in Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and Michael C. Thomas, American Beetles (CRC Press, 2002), vol. 2

External links

• Page with a photo of Cucujus clavipes

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