False Flower Beetles Lat. “Scraptiidae“
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.
Hierarchy
Genera
Genera include:
Ancestry Graph
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arthropods("phylum: Arthropods"):::active
arthropods-->insects("class: Insects"):::active
insects-->beetles("order: Beetles"):::active
beetles-.->ant-like-flower-beetles("family: Ant-like Flower Beetles")
beetles-.->checkered-beetles("family: Checkered Beetles")
beetles-.->click-beetles("family: Click Beetles")
beetles-.->darkling-beetles("family: Darkling Beetles")
beetles-.->false-blister-beetles("family: False Blister Beetles")
beetles==>false-flower-beetles("family: False Flower Beetles"):::active
beetles-.->fruitworm-beetles("family: Fruitworm Beetles")
beetles-.->ground-beetles("family: Ground Beetles")
beetles-.->jewel-beetles("family: Jewel Beetles")
beetles-.->lady-beetles("family: Lady Beetles")
beetles-.->leaf-beetles("family: Leaf Beetles")
beetles-.->longhorn-beetles("family: Longhorn Beetles")
beetles-.->net-winged-beetles("family: Net-winged Beetles")
beetles-.->sap-feeding-beetles("family: Sap-feeding Beetles")
beetles-.->scarabs("family: Scarabs")
beetles-.->shining-flower-beetles("family: Shining Flower Beetles")
beetles-.->skin-beetles("family: Skin Beetles")
beetles-.->soft-winged-flower-beetles("family: Soft-winged Flower Beetles")
beetles-.->soldier-beetles("family: Soldier Beetles")
beetles-.->straight-snouted-weevils("family: Straight-snouted Weevils")
beetles-.->true-weevils("family: True Weevils")
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click sap-feeding-beetles href "/en/catalogue/arthropods/insects/beetles/sap-feeding-beetles/"
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click soldier-beetles href "/en/catalogue/arthropods/insects/beetles/soldier-beetles/"
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Further Information
„False Flower Beetles“ on wikipedia.org
„False Flower Beetles“ on iNaturalist.org
Copyright
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Scraptiidae the free encyclopedia Wikipedia which is released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License). On Wikipedia a list of authors is available.
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