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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Scraptia
Genus
Scraptia
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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
Scraptia
Explanation of Names
Scraptia
Latreille 1807
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, ~150 total
(
1
)
Range
cosmopolitan; in our area,
S. sericea
e.US,
S. schaefferi
AZ
(
1
)
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.
Contributed by
v belov
on 24 May, 2009 - 9:45pm
Additional contributions by
Mike Quinn
Last updated 18 July, 2024 - 9:09pm