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Subfamily Latridiinae

Latridiidae - Stephostethus Beetle8701 - Dienerella costulata Tiny Beetle - Stephostethus liratus Subfamily Latridiinae? - Stephostethus liratus Small beetle with textured pronotum and head - Enicmus tenuicornis Stephostethus liratus Tiny brown leaf litter beetle - Metophthalmus Dienerella - Dienerella filum
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Coccinellid group)
Family Latridiidae (Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles)
Subfamily Latridiinae
Numbers
57 spp. in 10 genera in our area(1), ca. 260 spp. in 19 genera worldwide(2)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA
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.
2.Rücker W.H. (1998-2014) Latridiidae & Merophysiinae
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 12 February, 2009 - 10:38am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 10 October, 2010 - 3:47am

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