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Phloeostichidae

Insect Families

Phloeostichidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea typically found under the bark of dead trees, with four living genera: Phloeostichus in the Palearctic, Rhopalobrachium in central-southern South America and eastern Australia, Hymaea in southeastern Australia, and Bunyastichus in Tasmania. Larvae feed on plant tissue and fungi while adults feed only on fungi, and one extinct genus, Pleuroceratos, is known from Late Cretaceous Burmese amber. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Living or Extinct
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Family 2
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1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
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2. Phloeostichidae (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    Phloeostichidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea.
  • Taxonomic rank (structure-wave classification, ruling 761/926)
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