Ploskokhody ( Latin Platypodinae ) - the subfamily of beetles , numbering about 1000 species [1] [2] .
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Spread
On the territory of the former USSR, there is only one species - the cylindrical ploskokhod ( Platypus сulindrus ).
Description
Beetles 3.5-8 mm long. The body is cylindrical shiny. Paws are 5-segmented, long [1] . They differ from the bark beetles by a wider head or the same width as the pronotum , long, cylindrical, cut straight down in front, the back is loosely connected to the elytra, and the middle of the chest open from above is with the longitudinal keel.
Ecology
Ploskokhody lifestyle are similar to the bark beetles woods ( Trypodendron ). Some beetles from the subfamily Platypodinae (and the close subfamily Scolytinae ) are bred in “mushroom gardens” made in wood passages: they disperse in them the spores of the fungus, which becomes food for their larvae [3] [4] . The earliest example of such behavior is the discovery of the flatbed Palaeotylus femoralis in the chalky Burmese amber [5] .
Systematics
- Tribe Mecopelmini Thompson, 1992
- Genus: Mecopelmus Blackman, 1944
- Tribe Platypodini Erichson, 1847
- Childbirth: Austroplatypus - Baiocis - Carchesiopygus - Costaroplatus - Crossotarsus - Cylindropalpus - Dendroplatypus - Dinoplatypus - Doliopygus - Epiplatypus - Euplatypus - Megaplatypus - Mesoplatypus - Myoplatypus - Neotrachyostus - Oxoplatypus - Pereioplatypus - Peroplatypus - Platyphysus - the Platypus - Teloplatypus - Trachyostus - Treptoplatypus - Triozastus
- Tribe Schedlariini Wood & Bright, 1992
- Genus: Schedlarius
- Tribe Tesserocerini Strohmeyer, 1914
- Subtribe Diapodina Strohmeyer, 1914
- Births: Diapus - Genyocerus
- Subturba Tesserocerina Strohmeyer, 1914
- Births: Cenocephalus - Chaetastus - Mitosoma - Notoplatypus - Periommatus - Platytarsulus - Spathicranuloides - Spathidicerus - Tesserocerus - Tesserocranulus
- Subtribe Diapodina Strohmeyer, 1914
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Determinant of insects of the Far East of Russia. T. III. Coleoptera, or beetles. Part 3 / under total. ed. P. A. Lera . - Vladivostok: Dal'nauka, 1996. - p. 374. - 556 p.
- ↑ Platypodidae (pin-hole borers)
- ↑ Malloch, D., and M. Blackwell. Dispersal biology of ophiostomatoid fungi (Eng.) // Ceratocystis and Ophiostoma: Taxonomy, Ecology and Pathology. / Eds., Wingfield, M.J., K.A. Seifert, and J. F. Webber. - APS, St. Paul., 1993. - p . 195-206 .
- ↑ Farrell BD et al., 2001. The Evolution of Agriculture in Beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae). Archived February 8, 2012. Evolution 2001, 55 (10), 2011–2027.
- ↑ Poinar G., Vega FE, Legalov AA New subfamily of ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Platypodidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Eng.) // Historical Biology: journal. - 2018. - P. 1-6 . - ISSN 0891-2963 . - DOI : 10.1080 / 08912963.2018.1528446 .