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Subfamily Scraptiinae

Scraptia - Scraptia sericea Canifa False Flower Beetle - Canifa False Flower Beetle - Canifa false flower beetle - Canifa pallipes Scraptiidae - Allopoda Scraptiid - Allopoda lutea - female beetle - Canifa
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
most taxa currently placed here used to be treated as part of Melandryidae(1)
Numbers
2 tribes, with 11 spp. in 5 genera in our area, ~200 spp. in 16 genera total(2)
Range
worldwide(2)
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.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.