Trogossitidae, also known as bark-gnawing beetles, are a small family in the superfamily Cleroidea. Many taxa formerly within this family have been removed (as of 2019) to other families, such as Lophocateridae, Peltidae, Protopeltidae, Rentoniidae, and Thymalidae. Members of the family are generally predatory and/or feed on fungi, both in adult and larval stages, and are generally associated with wood, being found under bark or inside bored tunnel galleries. There are about 400 species in 25 genera in the family under the new, restricted circumscription, as opposed to 600 species in over 50 g
FAMILY
via GBIF · CC0
Trogossitidae, also known as bark-gnawing beetles, are a small family in the superfamily Cleroidea. Many taxa formerly within this family have been removed (as of 2019) to other families, such as Lophocateridae, Peltidae, Protopeltidae, Rentoniidae, and Thymalidae. Members of the family are generally predatory and/or feed on fungi, both in adult and larval stages, and are generally associated with wood, being found under bark or inside bored tunnel galleries. There are about 400 species in 25 genera in the family under the new, restricted circumscription, as opposed to 600 species in over 50 genera in the old definition. The oldest fossil assignable to the modern, more restricted definition of the family is Microtrogossita from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar, which has close affinities to the Trogossitini, indicating that the family had already considerably diversified by this time.
==Genera== Acalanthis Erichson, 1844 Airora Reitter, 1876 Alindria Erichson Anacypta Illiger Calanthosoma Reitter Calitys Thomson, 1859 Corticotomus Sharp, 1891 Dupontiella Spinola Egolia Erichson, 1842 Elestora Pascoe Eupycnus Sharp Euschaefferia Leng, 1920 Gymnocheilis Dejean Kolibacia Leschen & Lackner, 2013 Larinotus Carter & Zeck Leipaspis Wollaston, 1862 Leperina Erichson, 1844 Melambia Erichson Narcisa Pascoe Necrobiopsis Crowson, 1964 Nemozoma Latreille, 1804 Paracalanthis Crowson Parallelodera Fairmaire, 1881 Phanodesta Reitter Seidlitzella Jakobson Temnoscheila Westwood, 1830 Tenebroides Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783 Xenoglena Reitter
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).