| Brown flower beetle | |
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| beetle on a wilga tree | |
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| Species: | Glycyphana stolata |
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| Glycyphana stolata Fabricius, 1781 | |
Glycyphana stolata, the brown flower beetle is a species of scarab beetle, found in Australia. [1]
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms; new species are discovered frequently. The largest of all families, the Curculionidae (weevils), with some 83,000 member species, belongs to this order. Found in almost every habitat except the sea and the polar regions, they interact with their ecosystems in several ways: beetles often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris, and eat other invertebrates. Some species are serious agricultural pests, such as the Colorado potato beetle, while others such as Coccinellidae eat aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops.
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The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change in recent years. Several subfamilies have been elevated to family rank, and some reduced to lower ranks. The subfamilies listed in this article are in accordance with those in Bouchard (2011).
Dung beetles are beetles that feed on feces. Some species of dung beetles can bury dung 250 times their own mass in one night.
Polyphaga is the largest and most diverse suborder of beetles. It comprises 144 families in 16 superfamilies, and displays an enormous variety of specialization and adaptation, with over 350,000 described species, or approximately 90% of the beetle species so far discovered.
Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,500 species known in 775 genera. In addition, almost 100 fossil species have been described.
Trogidae, sometimes called hide beetles, is a family of beetles with a distinctive warty or bumpy appearance. Found worldwide, the family includes about 300 species contained in four or five genera.
Cucujiformia is an infraorder of polyphagan beetles, representing most plant-eating beetles.
The family Archeocrypticidae is a small group of beetles with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name cryptic fungus beetles. Adults and larvae seems to be saprophagous and are often found in plant litter. Worldwide, about 10 genera and 50 species are found, most species are pantropical. Enneboeus caseyi has been recorded from the American South, Central America, and Mexico. About 20 species are found in Australia, in the genera Enneboeus and Australenneboeus.
The family Mycteridae is a small group of beetles with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name palm and flower beetles. The family Mycteridae is distributed worldwide. There are about 30 genera and 160 species in three subfamilies Mycterinae, Hemipeplinae and Lacconotinae (=Eurypinae). About 20 species are found in Australia, species of three genera are found in North America
Hygrobia is a genus of aquatic beetles native to Europe, North Africa, China and Australia. It is the only genus in the family Hygrobiidae, also known as the Paelobiidae. These are known commonly as squeak beetles or screech-beetles.
The beetle genus Rhinorhipus contains a single species, Rhinorhipus tamborinensis from Queensland, Australia, and is the sole member of the family Rhinorhipidae, which is in turn the sole member of the superfamily Rhinorhipoidea, considered a "living fossil" taxon dating to an Upper Triassic/Lower Jurassic split from other extant beetle lineages.
Spalacopsis is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:
Spalacopsis stolata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Newman in 1842. Also referred to as Spalacopsis pertenuis.
Linda is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Bumetopia stolata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Masaki Matsushita in 1931. It is known from Taiwan.
Linda stolata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Pesarini and Sabbadini in 1997. It is known from China.
Cetoniini is a tribe of fruit and flower chafers in the family of beetles known as Scarabaeidae. There are over 80 genera in Cetoniini.
Leucania stolata is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.
Glycyphana is a genus of beetles of the family Scarabeidae.
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