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Cryptophagidae
Family CRYPTOPIIAGIDAE silken fungus beetles
Y. Bousquet
Sixty-six species of cryptophagids are recorded
in Canada and Alaska. These beetles are usually
found on mold, on fungi, under bark, as well as in
decaying vegetation and nests of social
Hymenoptera, birds, and mammals; one species,
Myrmedophila americana, lives in ant nests.
Adults and larvae of most species feed on mold and
decaying vegetation; those of Telmophilus species
apparently feed on flower heads of certain aquatic
plants. Several species of Cryptophagus are found
in stored products, where they feed on mold.
This group is poorly studied taxonomically.
Since Casey's (1900) revision of the North American
fauna, only the genus Cryptophagus has been
revised (Woodroffe and Coombs 1961). Many genera
previously included within the cryptophagids
have been transferred recently to Languriidae. The
reader can expect many nomenclatural changes at
the specifrc level, as well as many new distribution
records, when the cryptophagid groups are revised.
The generic classification of the Cryptophaginae
used here follows Bousquet (1989).
AK (26); YK (1); NT (3); BC (47); AB (15); SK (7);
MB (12); oN (1e); PQ (17); NB (2); NS (3); LB (2);
NF (3) . H (11);I (8)
Genus TELMATOPHILUS Heer
T. americanus LeConte
Subfamily TELMATOPHILINAE
BC AB SK MB ON PQ
Genus ANTHEROPHAGUS Latreille
A. convexulus LeConte
A. ochraceus Melsheimer
oregon us Casey
A. pallidivestis Casey
A. suturalis Meklin
Subfamily CRYPTOPHAGINAE
Key to North American genera: Bousquet (1989)
Tlibe Cryptophagini
- - - ec AB !r< r,re 3N
AK
_BC
BC
PQ NB NS
PQNBNSPE_NF
Genus HENOTIDERUS Reitter
Crosimus Casey
Henoticoides Hatch
H. lorna (Hatch)
H. obesulus (Casey)
AK
AK_NT
BC
AB ON PQ NS
Genus HENOTICUS C.G. Thomson
Coniophthalmo Kangas
Glyptophorus Patk
H. californicus (Mannerheim)
inconspicuus (LeConte)
H. serratus (Gyllenhal)
denticulatus (LeConte)
AK
BC
BC
MB ON PQ
Genus PTERYNGIUM Reitter
P. crenatum (Gyilenhal)*
malacum Casey
BC
PQ
Genus SALEBIUS Casey
S. octodentatus (Mriklin)
sexdentatus Casey
AK
BC
Genus CRYPTOPHAGUS Herbst
C r y pto p hag i stes Crotch
Key to North American species: Woodroffe and Coombs (1961)
C. acutangulus (Gyllenhal)* AK BC
prominens Casey
restrictus Casey
AB
MB ON PQ
NF
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