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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 · Print References · Works Cited

small, active larva, red oak bark, now an imago (adult) - Canifa pallipes

Scraptiid? Anaspis atrata? - 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)

Print References

Liljeblad, E. 1945. Monograph of the family Mordellidae (Coleoptera) of North America, North of Mexico. Miscellaneous Publications No. 62, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 229 pp. (4)

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.

4.	Monograph of the Family Mordellidae (Coleoptera) of North America, North of Mexico Emil Liljeblad. 1945. University of Michigan Press.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 9 May, 2006 - 6:11am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 22 May, 2019 - 9:49am

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