Family Scraptiidae - False Flower Beetles

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

False Flower Beetle - Anaspis flavipennis

Small, black and orange beetle - Pentaria trifasciata

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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