Cedar Creek
Natural History Area


Insects of Cedar Creek

Order COLEOPTERA

Family CRYPTOPHAGIDAE

(Silken Fungus Beetles)

(Table of Species)

Perhaps five species of Silken Fungus Beetles (152 NA spp) have been collected at CCNHA. The genera Antherophagus, Anchicera, and Cryptophagus are represented. Many others await discovery in this and other small families of woodland-bark-fungi associated Coleoptera.


jhaar@lter.umn.edu Last updated May, 2000