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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
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Canifa pallipes
Species
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
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Explanation of Names
Canifa pallipes
(Melsheimer 1846)
Size
2.0‒2.5 mm
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2
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Range
e. NA to AK (NF-BC to FL-IN-MI in the east) -
Map
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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)
Contributed by
v belov
on 29 April, 2009 - 12:09pm
Additional contributions by
Mike Quinn
Last updated 12 April, 2025 - 11:50pm