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New #OpenAccess research in #RESSystematicEnt presents the #phylogenomics & revised classification of #Lymexyloidea & #Tenebrionoidea (#Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Cucujiformia)

See the new families & subfamilies🔽
doi.org/10.1111/syen.12683

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Graphical abstract of: Phylogenomics and revised classification of Lymexyloidea and Tenebrionoidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Cucujiformia)
May 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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48 hrs later it produced its 1st result:

Lymexylon navale ♀ today in Bengeo garden, nationally scarce ship-timber beetle that loves recently-cut Oak heartwood. It is really strange species unlike any other beetle here. @bugmanjones.bsky.social @nottscoleoptera.bsky.social #Lymexyloidea #saproxylic
Lymexylon navale female
July 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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#LiteratureNotice Batelka et al. Phylogenomics and revised classification of Lymexyloidea and Tenebrionoidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga: #Cucujiformia) doi.org/10.1111/syen... #Beetle #Beetles #polyphaga #taxonomy
Morphological diversity of Lymexyloidea and the ‘mordelloid clade’. Lymexyloidea: (a) Atractocerinae gen. sp., Singapore (Lymexylidae: Atractocerinae); (b) Lymexylon navale (Linnaeus) (Lymexylidae: Lymexylinae); (c) Elateroides flabellicornis (Schneider) (Hylecoetidae: Hylecoetinae); (d) Melittomma sericeum, USA (Hylecoetidae: Melittommatinae); Tenebrionoidea: ‘mordelloid clade’: (e) Hoshihananomia sp., Malaysia (Mordellidae: Mordellinae: Mordellini); (f) Tomoxia bucephala (Costa), Czech Republic (Mordellidae: Mordellinae: Mordellini); (g) Stenalia testacea (Fabricius), Italy (Mordellidae: Mordellinae: Stenaliini); (h) Pelecotoma flavipes Melsheimer, USA (Ripiphoridae: Pelecotominae); (i) Ptilophorus dufourii (Latreille), Greece (Ripiphoridae: Ptilophorinae); (j) Paleoripiphorus sp., Cretaceous Burmese amber (Ripiphoridae: Ripidiinae); (k) Ripidius quadriceps Abeille de Perrin, Spain (Ripiphoridae: Ripidiinae: Ripidiini); (l) Ripiphorus sp., USA (Ripiphoridae: Ripiphorinae: Ripiphorini); (m) Macrosiagon tricuspidata (Goeze), Hungary (Ripiphoridae: Ripiphorinae: Macrosiagonini); (n) Metoecus paradoxus (Linnaeus), Hungary (Ripiphoridae: Ripiphorinae: Macrosiagonini).
November 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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New #OpenAccess research by @lennartvandepeppel.bsky.social et al. in #RESSystematicEnt explores the evolution of fungus farming in ship-timber beetles (#Coleoptera: #Lymexyloidea).
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70056

#AmbrosiaBeetles #Phylogeny
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June 2, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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#LiteratureNotice Muñoz-Tobar et al. First Record of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera: #Lymexyloidea) from Ecuador, with Notes on Their Distribution doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #shiptimberbeetles
Atractocerus brasiliensis. a) Male, dorsal view, b) Female, dorsal view, c) Male head in dorsal view, d) Male head in lateroventral view, with maxillary palp organ visible.
April 20, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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The #OpenAccess #EditorsChoice article for the issue, by @lennartvandepeppel.bsky.social et al., reports on the evolution of fungus farming in ship-timber beetles (Coleoptera: #Lymexyloidea).

Why not give it a read?
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70056

#AmbrosiaBeetles #Phylogeny
July 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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NAKAMURA, R.: A A New Synonym of the Genus Lymexylon (Coleoptera: Lymexylidae) from Japan, with a Checklist of Japanese Species of the Lymexyloidea
JJSE 32(1): 103-105.
#Coleoptera
doi.org/10.69343/jjs...
July 30, 2026 at 9:06 AM