Scraptiidae
Encyclopedia
The family Scraptiidae is a small group of beetle
s 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
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Beetle
Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...
s 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
Mordellidae
Mordellidae is a family of beetles commonly known as tumbling flower beetles for the typical irregular movements they make when escaping predators, or as pintail beetles due to their abdominal tip which aids them in performing these tumbling movements...
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Genera
Genera include:- Allopoda
- AnaspisAnaspisAnaspis is a large genus of beetles belonging to the family Scraptiidae. These small beetles are sometimes falsely called tumbling flower beetles as they occur in large numbers on flowers and have a habit of tumbling to the ground when disturbed...
- Canifa
- Cyrtanaspis
- Diclidia
- Larisia
- Nassipa
- Naucles
- Neoscraptia
- Pectotoma
- Pentaria
- Pseudopentaria
- Scraptia
- Silaria
- Sphingocephalus
- Trotomma
- Trotommidea