Triplax
| Triplax | |
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| Adult of type species Triplax russica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Erotylidae |
| Subfamily: | Erotylinae |
| Genus: | Triplax Herbst, 1793 |
| Type species | |
| Silpha russica Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ogcotriplax Heller, 1920 | |
Triplax is a large genus of small beetles in the pleasing fungus beetle family Erotylidae. They are found almost anywhere where fungi grow, but seem to be less common (though still widespread) in the tropics and absent from Australasia and the Pacific region. They are placed in subfamily Tritominae, or – in taxonomic arrangements that prefer a more comprehensive subfamily Erotylinae – in tribe Tritomini of the Erotylinae.