The family Archeocrypticidae is a small group of beetles with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name cryptic fungus beetles. Adults and larvae seems to be saprophagous and are often found in plant litter.[1] Worldwide, about 10 genera and 50 species are found, most species are pantropical. Enneboeus caseyi has been recorded from the American South, Central America, and Mexico.[1] About 20 species are found in Australia, in the genera Enneboeus, Australenneboeus[2][3][4][5] and Gondwanenneboeus,[5][6] Archeocrypticus, Falsoplatydema, Nothenneboeus, Sivacrypticus and Wattianus.[5] They are largely absent from the Palearctic and Nearctic regions.[7]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Tenebrionoidea |
| Family: | Archeocrypticidae Kaszab, 1964 |
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References
edit- ^ a b Young, Daniel K. (2002). "97. Archeocrypticidae Kaszab, 1964". In Arnett, Ross H.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J. Howard (eds.). Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. American Beetles. Vol. 2. CRC Press. pp. 401–402. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- ^ Lawrence, JF (1994). "Review of the Australian Archeocrypticidae (Coleoptera), with descriptions of a New Genus and four new species". Invertebrate Systematics. 8 (2): 449. doi:10.1071/IT9940449. ISSN 1445-5226. Wikidata Q54575104.
- ^ Watt, J. C. (1974). "A revised subfamily classification of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 1 (4): 381–452. doi:10.1080/03014223.1974.9517846.
- ^ Triplehorn, Charles A.; Wheeler, Quentin D. (1979). "Systematic Placement and Distribution of Uloporus ovalis Casey (Coleoptera: Heteromera: Archeocrypticidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 33 (2): 245–250. JSTOR 4000029.
- ^ a b c "Australian Faunal Directory: Archeocrypticidae - names". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
- ^ "Australian Faunal Directory: Gondwanenneboeus". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
- ^ Lawrence, John F.. "11.2. Archeocrypticidae Kaszab, 1964". Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 496-501.
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