This family of roughly 198 genera spread across nine sub-families is diversely and richly spread across the globe, with a seeming especially great concentration of species in Asia and Oceania. Numerous members of this genus have become pantropical pests, but in keeping with its great diversity also contains specimens known from single cave systems. At least six genera and upwards of fifteen species have been kept in captivity.
Page image (Antheromorpha uncinata juveniles) compliments of Kevin Nasser.