Scraptiidae

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Scraptiidae
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
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Anaspis rufilabris from Germany
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea
Family: Scraptiidae
Mulsant, 1856
Genera

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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:

References

  1. ↑ Arnett, Ross H. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II. CRC Press. p. 564.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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. PMC   6796959 . PMID   31632854.


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