Tetratomidae

Tetratomidae is a small family of beetles sometimes called polypore fungus beetles. The family consists of several genera, most of which used to be in the family Melandryidae. Tetratomidae can be found worldwide.^[1]

Tetratomidae Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Eustrophopsis bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Tenebrionoidea
Family:	Tetratomidae Billberg, 1820

Tetratoma

Their food consists of fruiting bodies of hymenomycete fungi.^[2]

Genera

These 12 genera belong to the family Tetratomidae:

• Cyanopenthe Nikitsky, 1998^[3]
• Eustrophopsis Champion, 1889^[4][5][3]
• Eustrophus Illiger, 1807^[4][5][3]
• Hallomenus Panzer, 1794^[4][5][3]
• Holostrophus Horn, 1888^[4][5][3]
• Mycetoma Dejean, 1834^[3]
• Penthe Newman, 1838^[4][5][3]
• Pisenus Casey, 1900^[4][5][3]
• Pseudoholostrophus Nikitsky, 1983^[4][5][3]
• Synstrophus Seidlitz, 1898^[4][5][3]
• Tetratoma Fabricius, 1790^[4][5][3]
• Triphyllia Reitter, 1898^[4][5][3]

Fossil genera

• Subfamily Eustrophinae
  • Tribe Eustrophini
    • †Allostrophus Hsiao et al., 2018 (Cenomanian Burmese amber, Myanmar)
    • †Thescelostrophus Yu et al., 2016 (Burmese amber)
  • Tribe Holostrophini
    • †Synchrotronia Soriano & Pollock, 2014 (Cenomanian Charentese amber, France)
  • Tribe incertae sedis
    • †Cretosynstrophus Cai et al., 2016 (Burmese amber)
• Subfamily Hallomeninae
  • †Pseudohallomenus Nikitsky, 1977 (Santonian, Taimyr amber, Russia)