Cyclaxyridae
Family of beetles
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Cyclaxyridae are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea. The only living genus is Cyclaxyra, with two species endemic to New Zealand. Other species have been named from fossils. They are also known as sooty mould beetles due to the association of Cyclaxyra with sooty mould. The extant species are mycophagous, feeding on spores, conidia, and hyphae.[1]
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| Specimen of Cyclaxyra politula | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Cucujoidea |
| Family: | Cyclaxyridae Gimmel, Leschen & Ślipiński, 2009 |
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Genera
- Cyclaxyra Broun, 1893, New Zealand, recent
- Cyclaxyra jelineki Gimmel, 2009
- Cyclaxyra politula (Broun, 1881)
- †Electroxyra Gimmel, Szawaryn, Cai and Leschen, 2019[2]
- Electroxyra cretacea (Wu in Wu, Li and Ding, 2018[3]) Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
- †Pacyclaxyra Tihelka, Huang and Cai, 2021[4]
- Pacyclaxyra azari Tihelka, Huang and Cai, 2021 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- †Neolitochropus Lyubarsky and Perkovsky, 2016[5][2][6]
- Neolitochropus hoffeinsorum Lyubarsky & Perkovsky, 2016 Bitterfeld amber, Rovno amber, Baltic amber, Europe, Eocene