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Genus Brachypterolus

Very Tiny Beetle - Brachypterolus pulicarius Kateretidae - Brachypterolus pulicarius Beetle - Brachypterolus pulicarius Beetle - Brachypterolus pulicarius Kateretidae - Brachypterolus pulicarius - Toadflax Flower-eating Beetle? - Brachypterolus pulicarius Kateretidae - Brachypterolus pulicarius - Toadflax Flower-eating Beetle? - Brachypterolus pulicarius Nitidulidae - Colopterus niger? - Sap-feeding beetle - Brachypterolus pulicarius Nitidulidae - Carpophilus brachypterus? - Sap-feeding beetle - Brachypterolus pulicarius
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Nitidulid series)
Family Kateretidae (Short-winged Flower Beetles)
Genus Brachypterolus
Explanation of Names
Brachypterolus Grouvelle 1913
Numbers
A single (adventive) species in our area(1), 8 spp. total(2)
Remarks
One species was inadvertently introduced from Eurasia to North America and found to reduce seed numbers in both invasive toadflax species and disperse without assistance
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.BioLib.cz