Myxophaga

Sphaerius acaroides

Taxonavigation

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: Myxophaga
Superfamiliae (2): Lepiceroidea – Sphaeriusoidea

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Familiae overview (4 + 1†): Hydroscaphidae – Lepiceridae – Sphaeriusidae – Torridincolidae – †Triamyxidae

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Unplaced genera: †Leehermania

Name

Myxophaga Crowson, 1955

References

Additional references

• Anton, E.; Beutel, R.G. 2006: On the head morphology of Lepiceridae (Coleoptera: Myxophaga) and the systematic position of the family and suborder. European journal of entomology, 103: 85–95. PDF
• Arce Pérez, R. 1997. Sinopsis del suborden Myxophaga (Coleoptera) de México. Dugesiana 4(2): 41–50. DOI: 10.32870/dugesiana.v4i2.7194 [nonfunctional] . PDF. [in Spanish, with English abstract] Reference page. 
• Beutel, R.G. 1999: Phylogenetic analysis of Myxophaga (Coleoptera) with a redescription of Lepicerus horni (Lepiceridae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 237: 291–308.
• Beutel, R.G. 2005: 6. Myxophaga Crowson, 1955. Introduction, phylogeny. Pp. 43-44 in: Beutel, R.G. & Leschen, R.A.B. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, Beetles. Volume 1: Morphology and systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga 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. DOI: 10.1515/9783110904550.43
• Beutel, R.G.; Maddison, D.R.; Haas, A. 1999: Phylogenetic analysis of Myxophaga (Coleoptera) using larval characters. Systematic entomology, 24: 171–192.
• Bouchard, P. & Bousquet, Y. 2020. Additions and corrections to “Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)”. ZooKeys 922: 65–139. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.922.46367 . Reference page. 
• Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . PMC: 3088472 . Reference page. 
• Hinton, H.E. 1967. On the spiracles of the larvae of the suborder Myxophaga (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 15(5): 955–959. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9670955 Reference page. 
• Keller, O., Schnepp, K.E., Ashman, K.L., Turnbow, R.H. & Skelley, P.E. 2020. An annotated catalog of the type material of Adephaga and Myxophaga (Coleoptera) deposited in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods in Gainesville, Florida, United States of America. Zootaxa 4744(1): 1–118. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4744.1.1. . Abstract. Reference page. 
• Kirejtshuk, A.G. & Poinar, G., Jr. 2006. Haplochelidae, a new family of Cretaceous beetles (Coleoptera: Myxophaga) from Burmese amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108(1): 155–164. BHL. Reference page. 
• Lawrence, J.F., Weir, T.A. & Pyke, J.E. 1987. Archostemata and Myxophaga. Pp. 6–16. In: Walton, D.W. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 4. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. ISBN 978-06-44-04896-5. DOI: 10.1163/9789004626638 . Reference page. 
• Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1 ed. I. Löbl, & A. Smetana, Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 2003 and 2004, p.25 ISBN 87-88757-73-0
• Qvarnström, M., Fikáček, M., Wernström, J.V., Huld, S., Beutel, R.G., Arriaga-Varela, E., Ahlberg, P.E. & Niedźwiedzki, G. 2021. Exceptionally preserved beetles in a Triassic coprolite of putative dinosauriform origin. Current Biology 31(15): 3374–3381.e5. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.015 . Reference page. 
• Reichardt, H. 1973: A critical study of the suborder Myxophaga, with a taxonomic revision of the Brazilian Torridincolidae and Hydroscaphidae (Coleoptera). Arquivos de zoologia, 24(2): 73–162. full text and pdf
• van Vondel, B.J., Ostovan, H. & Ghahari, H. 2017. An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 4216(3): 225–246. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4216.3.2 Reference page. 

Links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Tree of Life Web Project. 2007. Myxophaga. Version 07 August 2007 (temporary) in The Tree of Life Web Project
• Atlas of beetles of Russia (a project dedicated to the 100th anniversary of G.G. Jacobson's book "Beetles of Russia")

Vernacular names

беларуская: Міксафага
čeština: řasožraví
English: myxophagans
suomi: Rihmansyöjät
日本語: ツブミズムシ亜目 (粘食亜目)
русский: Миксофага
svenska: Svampätarbaggar
中文: 藻食亚目

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