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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Antlike Flower Beetles (Anthicidae)

Family Anthicidae - Antlike Flower Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Looks like O. formicarius also but, - Omonadus floralis

Notoxus on dry floodplain - Notoxus serratus - female

Antlike Flower Beetle - Notoxus calcaratus

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 Anthicidae (Antlike Flower Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ischalia is now treated in a separate family

Explanation of Names

Anthicidae Latreille 1819

Numbers

230 spp. in 31 genera in NA(1), ~3,500 spp. in >100 genera worldwide, arranged in 8 subfamilies (of which 5 represented in our area)(2)

Overview of our fauna(*) txa not yet in the guide

Family AnthicidaeOverview of our fauna:

Subfamily Eurygeniinae

Tribe Eurygeniini Retocomus · Rilettius · Pergetus · Stereopalpus · Leptoremus · *Mastoremus · Bactrocerus · Eurygenius · Duboisius · Qadrius · *Neoeurygenius · Rastrogenius

Subfamily Macratriinae Macratria · Thambospasta

Subfamily Anthicinae

Tribe Anthicini Amblyderus · Anthicus · Omonadus · Tanarthrus · Leptanthicus · Sapintus · Stricticollis · *Baulius · Malporus · Cyclodinus · Euvacusus · Vacusus · Acanthinus · Formicilla · Ischyropalpus

Subfamily Notoxinae Notoxus · Squamanotoxus · Mecynotarsus

Subfamily Tomoderinae Tomoderus

Size

1.25‒18 mm(2); in our area, 2‒12 mm

Identification

Key covering most ne. spp. and habitus photos in (3)

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(1)(2) ⋯

Habitat

Adults on vegetation, in leaf litter, shore/bank debris • larvae usually on/in soil, leaf litter, rotten wood, under stones, logs or debris, waterbanks and littoral zone, grasslands, deserts, etc.(1)(2)

Food

Larvae feed on decaying vegetation

See Also

Internet References

Anthicidae of Texas (Quinn 2022)

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.	Telnov D. (2011) Anthicidae, Ant-like flower beetles (in The Tree of Life Web Project)

3.	The Anthicidae and Ischaliidae of Atlantic Canada Majka C.G. 2011. J. Acad. Ent. Soc. 7: 50-64.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 8 August, 2005 - 10:51am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 1 October, 2024 - 8:52pm

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