Scraptiidae

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Scraptiidae
Anaspis rufilabris from Germany
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea
Family: Scraptiidae
Mulsant, 1856
Genera

See text.

The family Scraptiidae is a small group of beetles with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name false flower beetles. These beetles are very common and easily confused with members of the related family Mordellidae.

Genera

Genera include:

  • Allopoda
  • Anaspis
  • Canifa
  • Cyrtanaspis
  • Diclidia
  • Larisia
  • Nassipa
  • Naucles
  • Neoscraptia

  • Pectotoma
  • Pentaria
  • Pseudopentaria
  • Scraptia
  • Silaria
  • Sphingocephalus
  • Trotomma
  • Trotommidea

References

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