Euscyphidae

Euscyphidae is a taxonomic family and a clade of terfilene scyphers native to the central Atarinian mainland. Members of this family are called euscyphids, or "true" scyphers. Euscyphidae includes 84 known living species in two subfamilies, with 8 genera total. It has been described as "all species, extant and extinct, that are more closely related to Photoscyphicus murcural than to Myumaudus tiffani". It is one of the the three living families of scypher, the others being Parascypherinidae and Myumaudae. Eusyphids are grouped together with the myumauds in the superfamily Scypheridae.

Description
Euscyphids are diverse, comprising the great scyphers and the jungle scyphers. Great scyphers are on average larger than jungle scyphers. The largest species is a great scypher: the lowland hunting scypher (Venatiscyph harlei), a venatiscyph. The smallest is a jungle scypher: the least mouse jungle scypher (Pauloscyphicus exiguus), a mouse scypher.

Great scyphers are dull colored solid or spotted, in order to blend into grass and trees as they hunt. This is in stark contrast to some larger jungle scyphers, such as some Sylvestroscyphicus and Ludoscyphicus species, which display vivid colors, complex patterns, and florescent scyphic apparatuses. One species, ludoscyphicus regnbogis, the rainbow scypher, possesses iridescent stripes running dorsally head to tail. Since these patterns are apparently of detriment to avoiding predation, they likely evolved through sexual selection.

Taxonomy

 * Subfamily Scypherinae
 * Tribe Venatini
 * Venatiscyph
 * Tribe Scypherinini
 * Sicariolus
 * Photoscyphicus
 * Subfamily Sylvestroscyphinae
 * Tribe Sylvestroscypherini
 * Sylvestrosyphicus
 * Ludoscyphicus
 * Tribe Sinuini
 * Fruktiliudoyus
 * Pauloscyphicus