Aulacoscelidinae

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Aulacoscelidinae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Orsodacnidae
Subfamily: Aulacoscelidinae
Genera

Aulacoscelis
Janbechynea

The beetle subfamily Aulacoscelidinae (sometimes misspelled "Aulacoscelinae") is a small, uncommonly-encountered group presently classified within the family Orsodacnidae, historically placed as a subfamily of Chrysomelidae, or sometimes classified as a separate family Aulacoscelidae. [1] [2] There are only 19 species, mostly Neotropical in distribution, and their larval habits are unknown. [3] [4]

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References

  1. "Subfamily Aulacoscelidinae - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  2. "Subfamily Aulacoscelidinae". iNaturalist.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
  3. "Fossilworks: Aulacoscelidinae". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
  4. Prado, Alberto; Mckenna, Duane D.; Windsor, Donald (October 2012). "Molecular evidence of cycad seed predation by immature Aulacoscelidinae (Coleoptera: Orsodacnidae)". Systematic Entomology. 37 (4): 747–757. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00639.x. S2CID   85984054.