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Family Scraptiidae - False Flower Beetles

family? - Canifa pallipes Mordellid or scraptiidae... - Anaspis atrata Scraptiidae (False Flower Beetle), dorsal - Canifa pallipes Tiny orange beetle under log - Scraptiidae? - Pentaria trifasciata Pentaria trifasciata? - Pentaria trifasciata Skinny Tan Beetle - Lateral - Scraptia sericea Pentaria trifasciata var. nubila - Pentaria trifasciata Pentariini? - Diclidia bicincta
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)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
our fauna reviewed in (1) • Anaspidinae used to be treated in Mordellidae; what is now Scraptiinae, in Melandryidae(2)
Explanation of Names
Scraptiidae Gistel 1848
Numbers
~45 spp. in 10 genera in our area(2), ~500 spp. in 35 genera worldwide(3) [prob. an overestimate because of a typo in(4)]
Overview of our faunaTaxa not yet in the guide are marked (*)
Family Scraptiidae (to be aligned with (1) =v=)
Size
1.0‒13.5 mm(2)
Identification
see (5)
Range
worldwide
Habitat
adults mostly on flowers, often en masse; larvae under bark, in dead logs or lichens(2)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.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.
3.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.
4.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.
5.Monograph of the Family Mordellidae (Coleoptera) of North America, North of Mexico
Emil Liljeblad. 1945. University of Michigan Press.