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Genus Scraptia

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

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