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Myxophaga
Sign in to saveMyxophaga is the second-smallest suborder of the Coleoptera after Archostemata, consisting of roughly 65 species of small to minute beetles in four families. The members of this suborder are aquatic and semiaquatic, and feed on algae.
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It sits within the topics Beetles described in 1955, Beetles of Asia and Beetles of North America.
Its subject is documented across 29 Wikipedia language editions.
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Myxophaga est un sous-ordre d'insectes coleoptères très spécialisés de 80 espèces dans 12 genres. Liste des familles Hydroscaphidae LeConte, 1874 Lepiceridae Crowson, 1955 Sphaeriusidae Erichson, 1845 Torridincolidae Steffan, 1964
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Myxophaga is the second-smallest suborder of the Coleoptera after Archostemata, consisting of roughly 65 species of small to minute beetles in four families. The members of this suborder are aquatic and semiaquatic, and feed on algae.
==Description== Myxophaga have several diagnostic features: the antennae are more or less distinctly clubbed with usually fewer than nine segments, mesocoxal cavities are open laterally and bordered by a mesepimeron and metanepisternum, the hind wings are rolled apically in the resting positions. Internally, they are characterised by the presence of six malpighian tubules and the testes are tube-like and coiled.
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