Cybocephalidae

Cybocephalidae is a family of sap, bark and fungus beetles in the order Coleoptera with a wide global distribution. The type genus Cybocephalus has more than 200 species in it and the entire family has about 220 species in all.^[1][2][3][4] Many species are predators of armoured scale insects (Diaspididae).^[5] There are four tarsal segments on all the legs. The body is only slightly longer than wide and very convex and shiny. They are small and about 1 to 3 mm long. The insect can roll into a ball like position with its downward facing head. The tarsomeres are lobed underneath. The family is sometimes treated as a subfamily within the Nitidulidae.^[6]

Cybocephalidae Temporal range: Eocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Cybocephalus fodori
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Cucujoidea
Family:	Cybocephalidae Jacquelin du Val, 1858

Genera

Cybocephalidae contains the following genera:^[7][8]

• Amedissia Kirejtshuk & Mantič, 2015 – Central and South America
• Apastillus Kirejtshuk & Mantič, 2015 – Japan
• Conglobatus T. R. Smith, 2020 – Central America, South America and the West Indies.
• Cybocephalus Erichson, 1844 – Worldwide
• Endrodiellus Enrödy-Younga, 1962 – Madagascar
• Eupastillus Lawrence, 2019 – Australia
• Hierronius Enrödy-Younga, 1968 – Madeira and Canary Islands
• Horadion Enrödy-Younga, 1976 – Eastern Africa and southern Asia
• Microthomas T. R. Smith, 2020 – Bolivia
• Pacicephalus Kirejtshuk & Mantič, 2015 – Micronesia
• †Pastillocenicus Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2008 – French Eocene amber
• Pastillodes Enrödy-Younga, 1968 – Northern Africa
• Pastillus Enrödy-Younga, 1962 – Tropical and southern Africa
• Pycnocephalus Sharp, 1891 – Mexico, Central America and South America
• Taxicephomerus Kirejtshuk, 1994 – Vietnam
• Theticephalus Kirejtshuk, 1988 – Northern Africa, Middle East and Central Asia