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Subfamily Carpophilinae


Carpophiline-ID: an interactive matrix-based key to the carpophiline sap beetles (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) of Eastern NA
By DiLorenzo, C.L., Powell, G.S., Cline, A.R. & McHugh, J.V.
Zookeys, 2021

Key to adventive sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in Hawaii, with notes on records and habits
By Ewing C.P., Cline A.R.
Col. Bull. 59: 167-183, 2005

Four new species of Carpophilus (Ecnomorphus) Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Carpophilinae) from the New World
By Powell G.A.
Col. Bull. 74:175-180, 2020

Imagines and larvae of the new species of the genus Nitops Murray 1864 (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Carpophilinae) from Brazil...
By Kirejtshuk A.G., Kurochkin A.S., Monteiro R.F.
Russian Entomol. J. 16: 301–315, 2007
Full title: Imagines and larvae of the new species of the genus Nitops Murray 1864 (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Carpophilinae) from Brazil and notes on their bionomy
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Phylogeny and reclassification of Carpophilinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), with insights into the origins of anthophily
By Powell, G.S., Cline, A.R., Duffy, A.G. & Zaspel, J.M
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2020

A new species of Carpophilus from Florida, USA, and a reappraisal of the type material of Carpophilus ophthalmicus
By Dobson, R.M.
Journal of Entomology Series B, Taxonomy, 1972
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Dobson, R.M. (1972). A new species of Carpophilus Stephens (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) from Florida, USA, and a reappraisal of the type material of Carpophilus ophthalmicus Murray. Journal of Entomology Series B, Taxonomy, 41(2), 145-150.

Carpophilus of New Zealand with notes on Australian species
By Leschen R., Marris J.
Landcare Research Contract Report LC0405/153. 40 pp., 2005
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provides habitus & detail illustrations of all the [sub]cosmopolitan spp. associated with various products and spread by commerce; very helpful paper

The sap-feeding beetles (Col: Nitidulidae) of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia, and the District of Columbia
By Chandler D.S. Steury B.W.
Banisteria 57: 67–74, 2023