Mycetophagidae Leach, 1815

Berx, Peter, Bosmans, Bart, Dekoninck, Wouter, Janssen, Marc, Stassen, Eugène & Crevecoeur, Luc, 2023, Faunistic survey of myrmecophilous and other ant-associated beetles and spiders in the Belgian province of Limburg (Araneae, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 141, pp. 1-61 : 23

Mycetophagidae Leach, 1815

Mycetophagidae feed on fungi and live in decaying, damp wood of deciduous trees. Here they are usually collected by sieving the wood dust of hollow trees. Of the 105 sampled individuals (Annex) 76 were found by sieving with a concentration of 63 specimens in one location (Brullenbos, Hoeselt, FS7233). Only five specimens could be associated with ants, due to the presence of these beetles in the vicinity of a nest of L. brunneus .