Cryptophagini

Cryptophagini
Cryptophagus cellaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Cryptophagidae
Subfamily:	Cryptophaginae
Tribe:	Cryptophagini Kirby, 1826
Synonyms
Telmatophilini

Cryptophagini is a tribe of silken fungus beetles in the family Cryptophagidae. There are about 8 genera and at least 60 described species in Cryptophagini.

Earlier authors often separated a group around Telmatophilus as tribe Telmatophilini, and sometimes included various more distantly related genera therein and/or allied them with the lizard beetles, but eventually the differences between Telmatophilus and Cryptophagus (such as "clubbed" vs "beaded" antennae) turned out to mislead about an actually close relationship and the tribes were merged.

Genera

• Antherophagus Dejean, 1821
• Cryptophagus Herbst, 1792
• Henoticus Thomson, 1868
• Henotiderus Reitter, 1877
• Myrmedophila Bousquet, 1989
• Pteryngium Reitter, 1887
• Salebius Casey, 1900
• Telmatophilus Heer, 1841

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Majka, C; Langor, D (2010). "Contributions towards an understanding of the Cryptophaginae (Coleoptera, Cryptophagidae) of Atlantic Canada". ZooKeys (35): 13–35. doi:10.3897/zookeys.35.314.