| Ceratocanthinae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabeiformia |
| Superfamily: | Scarabaeoidea |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Ceratocanthinae A. MartÃnez, 1968 |
Ceratocanthinae is a subfamily of Hybosoridae in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Type genus Ceratocanthus. It includes three tribes within 40 genus, and 328 species.
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It is small sized beetles from 2.0 to 10.0 milimeters in length. Adult beetles can be found on the bark and branches of dead trees and on fungus.
Ceratocanthinae are relatively widespread. They can be found in Australian, Afrotropical, Indomalaysian, Neotropical, Nearctic, and Palaearctic regions.
The adults have been found to associate with termites and ants. Larvae live under bark and in burrows of bessbugs (Passalidae).