Cedar Creek
Ecosystem Science Reserve
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Insects of Cedar Creek
Order COLEOPTERA
Family CRYPTOPHAGIDAE
(Silken Fungus Beetles)
Perhaps five species of Silken Fungus Beetles (152 NA spp) have been collected
at CCESR. The genera
Antherophagus,
Anchicera,
and
Cryptophagus are
represented. Many others await discovery in this and other small families
of woodland-bark-fungi associated Coleoptera.