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Subfamily Tomoderinae

Antlike Flower Beetle - Tomoderus Ant-like Beetle - Tomoderus Tomoderus? - Tomoderus beetle - Tomoderus Anthicid - Tomoderus Tomoderus Florida Beetle for  ID - Tomoderus Carbon Co, Pennsylvania - Coleoptera - Tomoderus
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 Anthicidae (Antlike Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Tomoderinae
Explanation of Names
Tomoderinae Bonadona 1961
Numbers
3 spp. of a single genus in our area(1), >350 spp. in 7 genera worldwide(2)
Range
primarily tropical(2); in our area, e. US + WA(1)
Habitat
typically epigeic(2)
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.Telnov D. (2011) Anthicidae, Ant-like flower beetles (in The Tree of Life Web Project)