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Pleasing Fungus Beetles
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Pleasing Fungus Beetles

Erotylidae

Erotylidae, or the pleasing fungus beetles, is a family of beetles containing over 100 genera. In the present circumscription, it includes the subfamilies Dacninae, Encaustinae, Erotylinae, Megalodacninae, and Tritominae. In other words, the narrowly circumscribed Erotylidae correspond to the subfamily Erotylinae in the definition sensu lato. They feed on plant and fungal matter; some are important pollinators (e.g. of the ancient cycads), while a few have gained notoriety as pests of some significance. Sometimes, useful and...

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Erotylinae

subfamilyErotylinae

Languriinae

subfamilyLanguriinae

Cryptophilinae

subfamilyCryptophilinae

Pharaxonothinae

subfamilyPharaxonothinae

Loberinae

subfamilyLoberinae

Xenoscelinae

subfamilyXenoscelinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 82103.