Subfamily
Colydiinae (Cylindrical bark beetles)
Megataphrus tenuicornis. Photo: (c) Chloe and Trevor Van Loon, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Colydiinae is a subfamily of beetles, commonly known as cylindrical bark beetles. They have been treated historically as a family Colydiidae, but have been moved into the Zopheridae, where they constitute the bulk of the diversity of the newly expanded family, with about 140 genera worldwide. They are diverse for example in the Australian region, from where about 35 genera are known; in Europe, though, only 20 genera are found and many of these only with…