Zopheridae {family} - Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera;

Zopheridae is a family of beetles belonging to Tenebrionoidea. It has grown considerably in recent years as the members of two other families have been included within its circumscription; these former families are the Monommatidae and the Colydiidae, which are now both included in the Zopheridae as subfamilies or (in the former case) even as tribe of subfamily Zopherinae. Some authors accept up to six subfamilies here, while others merge all except the Colydiinae into the Zopherinae. The family has approximately 190 genera and 1700 species, which are found worldwide. A large number of members of the family feed on rotting wood or fungus associated with rotting wood, though some members of Colydiinae are predatory, or feed on living plant tissue such as roots, stems, flower stalks and fruit. The oldest fossils of the family are Paleoendeitoma (subfamily Colydiinae, tribe Synchitini) and Cretomysteria from the early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Burmese amber from Myanmar. full article at Wikipedia

Specimen Records:	4,258	Public Records:	2,783
Specimens with Sequences:	3,991	Public Species:	264
Specimens with Barcodes:	2,694	Public BINs:	289
Species:	291
Species With Barcodes:	95
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Costa Rica 759 Colombia 43 Mexico 23 Peru 556 South Africa 41 Honduras 22 New Zealand 186 France 36 Ghana 15 Germany 161 Austria 33 Australia 15 United States 110 Suriname 28 Tanzania 14 Canada 101 Argentina 25 Bangladesh 14 Madagascar 56 Pakistan 23