Lophocateridae

Lophocateridae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Cleroidea, formerly included in the Trogossitidae.^[1] Members of the group have a variety of ecologies, including as predators of other insects, as fungivores, or are phytophagous.^[2]

Lophocateridae Temporal range: Aptian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Grynocharis quadrilineata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Cleroidea
Family:	Lophocateridae Crowson, 1964
Genera
See text.

Genera[1]

• Afrocyrona Kolibáč
• Ancyrona Reitter, 1876
• Antillipeltis Lawrence, Leschen & Slipinski, 2014
• Colydiopeltis Slipinski
• Eronyxa Reitter, 1876
• Grynocharina Reitter
• Grynocharis Thomson, 1859
• Grynoma Sharp
• Indopeltis Crowson, 1966
• Leptonyxa Reitter
• Lophocateres Olliff, 1883
• Lycoptis Casey, 1890
• Neaspis Pascoe
• Parapeltis Slipinski
• Peltonyxa Reitter
• Promanus Sharp, 1877
• Trichocateres Kolibác, 2010
• †Sinosoronia Zhang 1992 Laiyang Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
• †Mesolophocateres Yu, Leschen & Ślipiński 2021 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
• †Parayixianteres Yu, Leschen & Ślipiński 2021 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian

References

1. Gimmel, Matthew L.; Bocakova, Milada; Gunter, Nicole L.; Leschen, Richard A.B. (3 January 2019). "Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)". Systematic Entomology. 44 (3): 527–558. Bibcode:2019SysEn..44..527G. doi:10.1111/syen.12338.
2. Kolibac, Jiri (2013-12-31). "Trogossitidae: A review of the beetle family, with a catalogue and keys". ZooKeys (366): 1–194. Bibcode:2013ZooK..366....1K. doi:10.3897/zookeys.366.6172. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 3890666. PMID 24453569.