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]

References

  1. 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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