TROGOSSITIDAE Author: John F. Lawrence, 2001. Classification Suborder Polyphaga, Series Cucujiformia, Superfamily Cleroidea. Description Antenae with 11 or rarely 10 segments and a 3 segments club. Antennal insertions concealed. Visible portion of procoxa transverse with the trochantin at least partly exposed. Procoxal cavity externally open to closed and internally open. Mesocoxae contigous to separated by 1 coxal width, with mesocoxal cavity laterally open. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Numberof ventrites 5 without ventrites connate. Body length 3-15 mm. Elongate, cylindrical to flattened, glabrous. Rarely (Cylidrella) with truncate elytra exposed abdominal tergites. Metacoxae extending laterally to meet elytral epipleura. Quick identification Trogossitidae is a relatively uniform group in Central America, with most species belonging to the genus Temnoscheila and the related Tenebroides (first and second figures). One unusual genus (last) is Cylidrella, in which the elytra are shortened. Genera occurring in Costa Rica Airora, Corticotomus, Cylidrella, Nemosoma, Temnoscheila, Tenebroides. © CSIRO Emtomology, 1999 Temnoscheila © CSIRO Emtomology, 1999 Tenebroides © CSIRO Emtomology, 1999 Cylidrella Derechos Reservados INBio. Copyrights INBio