Biphyllidae

Biphyllus lunatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cleroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Cleroidea

Familia: Biphyllidae
Genera (7): Althaesia – Anchorius – Anobocaelus – Biphyllus – Diplocoelus – Euderopus – Gonicoelus

Name

Biphyllidae LeConte, 1861

Synonymy

• Diphyllidae LeConte, 1861: 105

References

Primary references

• LeConte, J.L. 1861. Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Part I. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 3: 1–208. [pp. 209–286 published in March 1862] BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Cline, A.R.; McHugh, J.V. 2010: New generic synonymy in Biphyllidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea), with a checklist of Anchorius Casey, 1900. Coleopterists bulletin, 64: 98–99. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-64.1.98
• Cline, A.R.; Shockley, F.W. 2010: 10.6. Biphyllidae LeConte, 1861. Pp. 306-311 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755
• Goodrich, M.A.; Springer, C.A. 1992: A revision of the family Biphyllidae (Coleoptera) for America, north of Mexico. Coleopterists bulletin, 46: 361–377. JSTOR
• I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2007 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4: Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-67-6, p. 547
• Vitali, F. 2010: Diplocoelus probiphyllus n. sp., the first known fossil false skin beetle (Coleoptera: Biphyllidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (n.s.), 46: 168–172. ISSN: 0037-9271

Links

• Australian Faunal Directory (stub)
• Biphyllidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
• Atlas of false skin beetles (Biphyllidae) of Russia

Vernacular names

English: False Skin Beetles