Biology:Scraptiidae
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Short description: Family of beetles
| Scraptiidae | |
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| Anaspis rufilabris from Germany | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Tenebrionoidea |
| Family: | Scraptiidae Mulsant, 1856 |
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The family Scraptiidae is a small group of tenebrionoid beetles sometimes called false flower beetles. There are about 400 species in 30 genera with a world-wide distribution. The adults are found on flowers, sometimes in large numbers,[1] but are also found on foliage. The larvae are typically found under the bark of dead trees.[2] The oldest fossils of the group date to the Eocene.[3]
Genera
Genera include:
- Allopoda
- Anaspis
- Canifa
- Cyrtanaspis
- Diclidia
- Larisia
- Nassipa
- Naucles
- Neoscraptia
- Pectotoma
- Pentaria
- Pseudopentaria
- Scraptia
- Silaria
- Sphingocephalus
- Trotomma
- Trotommidea
References
- ↑ Arnett, Ross H. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II. CRC Press. p. 564.
- ↑ Lawrence, John F. and Ślipinśki, Adam. "11.28. Scraptiidae Mulsant, 1856". Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 746-750.
- ↑ Haug, Joachim T.; Haug, Carolin (2019-10-14). "Beetle larvae with unusually large terminal ends and a fossil that beats them all (Scraptiidae, Coleoptera)". PeerJ 7: e7871. doi:10.7717/peerj.7871. ISSN 2167-8359. PMID 31632854.
Wikidata ☰ Q900336 entry
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