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Subfamily Cryptarchinae

small beetles under compost pail - Glischrochilus siepmanni Picnic Beetle - Glischrochilus fasciatus Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Four-spotted Sap Beetle, Glischrochilus quadrisignatus? - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Picnic Beetle - Glischrochilus fasciatus Coleoptera - Glischrochilus vittatus Cucujoidea – Sap-feeding Beetles - Nitidulidae – Cryptarchinae  - Glischrochilus sanguinolentus Pityophagus - Pityophagus rufipennis
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 Cryptarchinae
Explanation of Names
Cryptarchinae C.G. Thomson 1859
Numbers
15 genera in 4 tribes worldwide; all our genera are in the tribe Cryptarchini that contains 8 genera worldwide(1)
Works Cited
1.A current generic classification of sap beetles (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae)
Kirejtshuk A.G. 2008. Zoosystematica Rossica 17: 107-122.