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Scraptiidae
Sign in to saveThe 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.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyScraptiidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,982
- With media
- 60
- Family
- Scraptiidae
- Collections
- INECOL, UTC, UAM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
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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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scraptiidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.