Family Scraptiidae - False Flower Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited

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

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.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 9 May, 2006 - 6:11am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 18 July, 2024 - 4:36pm

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