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.
Their food consists of fruiting bodies of hymenomycete fungi.
Genera These 12 genera belong to the family Tetratomidae:
Cyanopenthe Eustrophopsis Eustrophus Hallomenus Holostrophus Mycetoma Penthe Pisenus Pseudoholostrophus Synstrophus Tetratoma Triphyllia
Fossil genera Subfamily Eustrophinae Tribe Eustrophini †Allostrophus (Cenomanian Burmese amber, Myanmar) †Thescelostrophus (Burmese amber) Tribe Holostrophini †Synchrotronia (Cenomanian Charentese amber, France) Tribe incertae sedis †Cretosynstrophus (Burmese amber) Subfamily Hallomeninae †Pseudohallomenus (Santonian, Taimyr amber, Russia)
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