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Species Canifa pallipes

small beetle - Canifa pallipes Canifa pallipes False Flower Beetle? - Canifa pallipes beetle - Canifa pallipes Canifa pallipes (Melsheimer) - Canifa pallipes Scraptiid? - Canifa pallipes - male false flower beetle - Canifa pallipes Canifa plagiata - Canifa pallipes
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
Species pallipes (Canifa pallipes)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Scraptia pallipes var. minuta Melsheimer 1846 & var. plagiata Melsheimer 1846(1)
Explanation of Names
Canifa pallipes (Melsheimer 1846)
Size
2.0‒2.5 mm(2)
Range
e. NA to AK (NF-BC to FL-IN-MI in the east) - Map (3)(4)(5)
Works Cited
1.Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a catalog of world genera
Johnston M.A., Naczi R.F.C., Gimmel M.L. 2024. Col. Bull. 78: 171‒200.
2.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
3.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
4.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.
5.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)