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Genus Canifa

Canifa False Flower Beetle? - Canifa Scraptiidae (False Flower Beetle), dorsal - Canifa plagiata Canifa Coleoptera - Canifa Coleoptera - Canifa Scraptiidae - False Flower Beetle? - Canifa Toe wing - Canifa
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Scraptiidae (False Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Scraptiinae
Tribe Scraptiini
Genus Canifa
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
genus needs revision
Explanation of Names
Canifa LeConte 1866
Numbers
4 described species in our area(1)
Range
Widespread(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
Contributed by tom murray on 31 May, 2006 - 9:17pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 5 July, 2021 - 10:05am

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