Cyrtomorphus

Cyrtomorphus
Cyrtomorphus connexus
Scale bar = 1 mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Erotylidae
Subfamily: Erotylinae
Genus: Cyrtomorphus
Lacordaire, 1842
Type species
Cyrtomorphus pantherinus
Lacordaire, 1876

Cyrtomorphus is a genus of pleasing fungus beetles (insects in the family Erotylidae). Species are found in Far East Asia, from Taiwan and southern China to the Sunda Shelf. There is also a record from eastern Africa and another from Pozuzo in Peru, which are suspect on biogeographical grounds, because pleasing fungus beetle genera are usually restricted to a single coherent landmass. These small and roundish beetles strikingly resemble ladybeetles even more than numerous other pleasing fungus beetles do. This genus is placed in subfamily Tritominae, or – in taxonomic arrangements that prefer a more comprehensive subfamily Erotylinae – in tribe Tritomini of the Erotylinae.

Species

"C." clavulus is now in Pseudotritoma, while the supposed "C."quadrimaculatus turned out to be the same species as Spondotriplax endomychoides – the type species of Spondotriplax –, which consequently was renamed S.quadrimaculatus.

References

  1. ↑ Lacordaire, Jean T. (1842): Monographie des érotyliens, famille de l'ordre des coléoptères.
  2. 1 2 Delkeskamp, Kurt (1965): Die afrikanischen Arten der Triplacini (mit 1. Nachtrag für die afrikanischen Tritomini) (Col. Erotylidae). 34. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Erotyliden. ["The African species of Triplacini (with 1st addendum for African Tritomini). 34th contribution to the knowledge of erotylids." Article in German.] Dt. entomol. Z. N.F. 12(1/2): 83-177. doi:10.1002/mmnd.19650120108
  3. 1 2 Alvarenga, Moacyr (1994): Catálogo dos Erotylidae (Coleoptera) Neotropicais. [Catalogue of Neotropical Erotylidae (Coleoptera). Portuguese with English abstract.] Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 11(1): 1-175. doi:10.1590/S0101-81751994000100001.
  4. ↑ "Genus Cyrtomorphus". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 Chûjô, Michio, Michio & Chûjô, Michitaka (1990): A catalog of the Erotylidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from the old world (excl. the Ethiopian region III. Esakia 29: 1-67. PDF fulltext.