| Glaphyridae Temporal range: Aptian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Glaphyrus maurus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Superfamily: | Scarabaeoidea |
| Family: | Glaphyridae Macleay, 1819 |
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Glaphyridae is a family of beetles, commonly known as bumble bee scarab beetles. There are eight extant genera with about 80 species distributed worldwide and two extinct genera described from the Aptian aged Yixian Formation of China. There are cases of flower-beetle interactions, in the southeast Mediterranean region between red bowl-shaped flowers and Glaphyridae beetles.
See also
References
- Michael A. Ivie (2002). Ross H. Arnett & Michael Charles Thomas (ed.). American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Volume 2 of American Beetles. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- G. V. Nikolajev; D. Ren (2012). "New species of the genus Lithohypna Nikolajev, Wang et Zhang, 2011 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Glaphyridae) from the Yixian Formation, China". Euroasian Entomological Journal. 11 (3): 209–211.
- Hongyun Zhao; Ming Bai; Chungkun Shih; Dong Ren (2016). "Two new glaphyrids (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) from the Jehol Biota, China". Cretaceous Research. 59: 1–9. Bibcode:2016CrRes..59....1Z. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.10.026.
- Martínez-Harms, J.; Vorobyev, M.; Schorn, J.; Shmida, A.; Keasar, T.; Homberg, U.; Schmeling, F.; Menzel, R. (2012). "Evidence of red sensitive photoreceptors in Pygopleurus israelitus (Glaphyridae: Coleoptera) and its implications for beetle pollination in the southeast Mediterranean". Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 198 (6): 451–463. doi:10.1007/s00359-012-0722-5. PMID 22526111. S2CID 16701563.
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