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Family of beetles
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,[1] but are also found on foliage. The larvae are typically found under the bark of dead trees.[2] The oldest fossils of the group date to the Eocene.[3]
Genera
Genera include:
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.
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Rose1
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