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Superfamily Cucujoidea - Flower, Flat Bark and Ladybird Beetles

Cryptic Slime Mold Beetles · Short-winged Flower Beetles · Sap-feeding Beetles · Palmetto Beetles · Root-eating Beetles

Family Sphindidae - Cryptic Slime Mold Beetles
Slime Mold Beetles - Sphindus americanus Slime Mold Beetles (larvae) beetle - Odontosphindus clavicornis Slime Mold Beetles tiny hairy beetle - Sphindus americanus Sphindus sp. - Sphindus Cryptic slime mold beetle - Sphindus americanus Sphindus sp. - Sphindus

Family Kateretidae - Short-winged Flower Beetles
Amartus tinctus 2.4mm short elytra - Brachypterolus pulicarius 2.4mm short elytra - Brachypterolus pulicarius Poppy-lovin' beetle - Amartus tinctus Poppy-lovin' beetle - Amartus tinctus tiny beetles - Brachypterus little brown beetles on stinging nettles - Brachypterus beetle - Brachypterolus pulicarius

Family Nitidulidae - Sap-feeding Beetles
Small Beetle - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Small Beetle - Epuraea Unknown nit - Epuraea truncatella - female Another Small Beetle - Carpophilus pallipennis Nitidulidae - Stelidota ferruginea Sap-feeding Beetle - Meligethes simplipes Sap Beetle - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Pinchy Mouthparts - Prometopia sexmaculata

Family Smicripidae - Palmetto Beetles
Smicripidae Smicrips palmicola - Smicrips palmicola Smicrips

Family Monotomidae - Root-eating Beetles
Colydii*dae ? (no, Monotmidae) - Rhizophagus dimidiatus small beetle - Monotoma producta Root-eating beetle - Monotoma longicollis Pycnotomina cavicollis (Horn) - Pycnotomina cavicollis Monotomidae - Monotoma americana orange-spotted monotomid - Rhizophagus sayi small Monotomidae - Monotoma longicollis Monotomidae - Monotoma longicollis


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