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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles (Tenebrionoidea) » False Flower Beetles (Scraptiidae)

Family Scraptiidae - False Flower Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Habitat · Works Cited
unknown tiny beetle - Naucles Canifa Mordellid or scraptiidae... - Anaspis atrata Tiny beetle Small beetle - Pentaria trifasciata Small Brown Beetle - Anaspis rufa Tenebrionoidea - Pentaria trifasciata Mordellidae? - Anaspis atrata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea (Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles)
Family Scraptiidae (False Flower Beetles)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Anaspidinae used to be treated in Mordellidae; what is now Scraptiinae, in Melandryidae(1)
Explanation of Names
Scraptiidae Gistel 1848
Numbers
~45 spp. in 10 genera in our area(1), ~500 spp. in 35 genera worldwide(2) [prob. an overestimate because of a typo in(3)]
Overview of our faunaTaxa not yet in the guide are marked (*)
Family Scraptiidae
Subfamily Scraptiinae
Tribe Allopodini Allopoda
Tribe Scraptiini Scraptia · *Neoscraptia · Canifa · Pectotoma
Subfamily Anaspidinae
Tribe Pentariini Diclidia · Pentaria · Naucles · *Sphingocephalus
Tribe Anaspidini Anaspis
Size
1.0-13.5 mm(1)
Habitat
adults mostly on flowers, often en masse; larvae under bark, in dead logs or lichens(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.
2.Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.
3.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P. et al. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 9 May, 2006 - 6:11am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 31 May, 2017 - 3:43pm

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