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Subfamily Nitidulinae

Omosita discoidea Small Hive Beetle - Aethina tumida Beetles - Pallodes pallidus Aethina tumida Murray - Aethina tumida Something in Stelidota? - Stelidota geminata Blue Lake - Beetle 5 - Thalycra Lobiopa undulata? - Lobiopa undulata Omosita  - Omosita
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Nitidulid series)
Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)
Subfamily Nitidulinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
paraphyletic with respect to Meligethinae & Cillaeinae(1)
Numbers
by far the most diverse subfamily, with ~110 genera worldwide arranged in 6 tribes (of which 4 represented in our area)
Works Cited
1.Molecular phylogeny of Nitidulidae: assessment of subfamilial and tribal classification...
Cline A.R., Smith T.R., Miller K., Moulton M., Whiting M., Audisio P. 2014. Systematic Entomology 39: 758–772.