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Subfamily Scraptiinae

scraptiid discovery - Canifa Scraptiidae - Canifa Coleoptera - Canifa pallipes Pectotoma hoppingi Hatch - Pectotoma hoppingi - male Coleoptera - Canifa Canifa pallipes? - Canifa Coleoptera - Allopoda Tan Beetle - Lateral
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
11 spp. in 5 genera in our area(1)
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.