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Cerylonidae
Family CERil ONIDAE cerylonid beetles
J.M. Campbell
OnIy about 400 species of Cerylonidae, a family
that consists of small to very small beetles, are
known around the world, of which seven have been
recorded in Canada and Alaska. Most adults are
collected in leaf litter, in rotten wood, and under
bark. Hypodacne punctata is known in the galleries
of Camponotus ants, and Murmidius oualis occurs
on stored products (Lawrence and Stephan 1975).
Little is known about the feeding habits of the larvae
and adults, although some larvae are known to
feed on fungal hyphae or spores, and some larvae
feed on a plasmodium of slime molds (Slipinski
1988).
Adults of this family are reasonably well known
taxonomically. Sen Gupta and Crowson (1973)
redefined the family and revised the higher classification.
Lawrence and Stephan (1975) revised the
North American species, and Lawrence (1982b) cataloged
them.
AK (1); NT (1); eC (3); AB (2); tt{B (1); ON (6); PQ
(3);NB (1);NS (2) . I (1)
Subfamily ELIXESTINAE
Genus HYPODACNE LeConte
H. ounctata LeConte
ON
Subfamily MURMIDIINAE
Genus MURMIDIUS Leach
M. ovalis (Beck)t
Genus MYCOCERINUS Slipinski
Mychocerus a:uct.
M. depressus (LeConte)
AK
ON
ON
Subfamily CERYLONINAE
Genus PHILOTHERMUS Aub6
P. g)abriculus LeConte
ON PQ
Genus MYCHOCERUS Erichson
Lapethus Casey
M. discretus (Casey)
BC
Genus CERYLON Latreille
C. castaneum Say
clypeale Casey
stricticutn Casey
C. unicolor (Zieglet) NT
angustulum LeConte
simplex LeConte
syluaticum Casey
BC
BC
AB
AB
MB ON
ON
PQ NB NS
PQ
NS
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