Scraptiidae Temporal range: Eocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Anaspis rufilabris from Germany | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Superfamily: | Tenebrionoidea |
Family: | Scraptiidae Mulsant, 1856 |
Genera | |
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The family Scraptiidae is a small group of tenebrionoid beetles sometimes called false flower beetles. There are about 400 species in 30 genera with a world-wide distribution. The adults are found on flowers, sometimes in large numbers, but are also found on foliage. The larvae are typically found under the bark of dead trees. The oldest fossils of the group date to the Eocene.
Genera
Genera include:
- Allopoda
- Anaspis
- Canifa
- Cyrtanaspis
- Diclidia
- Larisia
- Nassipa
- Naucles
- Neoscraptia
- Pectotoma
- Pentaria
- Pseudopentaria
- Scraptia
- Silaria
- Sphingocephalus
- Trotomma
- Trotommidea
References
- Arnett, Ross H. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II. CRC Press. p. 564.
- Lawrence, John F. and Ślipinśki, Adam. "11.28. Scraptiidae Mulsant, 1856". Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 746-750.
- Haug, Joachim T.; Haug, Carolin (2019-10-14). "Beetle larvae with unusually large terminal ends and a fossil that beats them all (Scraptiidae, Coleoptera)". PeerJ. 7: e7871. doi:10.7717/peerj.7871. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 6796959. PMID 31632854.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Scraptiidae |
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