Cybocephalidae
Cybocephalidae is a family of sap, bark and fungus beetles in the order Coleoptera with a wide global distribution. The type genus Cybocephalus has more than 200 species in it and the entire family has about 220 species in all. Many species are predators of armoured scale insects. There are four tarsal segments on all the legs. The body is only slightly longer than wide and very convex and shiny. They are small and about 1 to 3 mm long. The insect can roll into a ball like position with its downward facing head. The tarsomeres are lobed underneath. The family is sometimes treated as a subfamily within the Nitidulidae.
Genera
Cybocephalidae contains the following genera:Amedissia Kirejtshuk & Mantič, 2015 – Central and South AmericaApastillus Kirejtshuk & Mantič, 2015 – JapanConglobatus T. R. Smith, 2020 – Central America, South America and the West Indies.Cybocephalus Erichson, 1844 – WorldwideEndrodiellus Enrödy-Younga, 1962 – MadagascarEupastillus Lawrence, 2019 – AustraliaHierronius Enrödy-Younga, 1968 – Madeira and Canary IslandsHoradion Enrödy-Younga, 1976 – Eastern Africa and southern AsiaMicrothomas T. R. Smith, 2020 – BoliviaPacicephalus Kirejtshuk & Mantič, 2015 – Micronesia- †Pastillocenicus Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2008 – French Eocene amberPastillodes Enrödy-Younga, 1968 – Northern AfricaPastillus Enrödy-Younga, 1962 – Tropical and southern AfricaPycnocephalus Sharp, 1891 – Mexico, Central America and South AmericaTaxicephomerus Kirejtshuk, 1994 – VietnamTheticephalus Kirejtshuk, 1988 – Northern Africa, Middle East and Central Asia