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Suborder
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Family
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Common Name
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Hint
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Distribution
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Archostemata
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Cupedidae
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Reticulated
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Beetles
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Flattened, parallel body, with large closely placed elytral punctures
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Worldwide
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Micromalthidae
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Telephone-Pole
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Beetles
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A single bizarre species, Micromalthus debilis, with sterile adults
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Nearctic
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Crowsoniellidae
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No common name
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Known from a single species, Crowsoniella relicta, found in Italy
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Italy
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Jurodidae
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No common name
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A single living species,Sikhotealinia zhiltzovae, from Siberia
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Siberia
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Ommatidae
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No common name
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The family with the most ancestral characteristics. Genera Omma, Tetraphalerus and Beutelius
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Neotropical/Australia
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Myxophaga
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Lepiceridae
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Toadlet
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Beetles
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Genus Lepicerus
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Neotropical
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Torridincolidae
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Torrent
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Beetles
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Contains Genera Torridincola & Ytu
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Afrotropical/Brazil/Japan
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Hydroscaphidae
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Skiff
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Beetles
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Minute, aquatic, resemble Tachyporinae
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Worldwide
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Sphaeriusidae
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Minute Bog
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Beetles
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Minute, with large hind coxal plates & abdominal sternites of unequal width
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Worldwide
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Adephaga
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Amphizoidae
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Trout-Stream
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Beetles
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Found in cool, fast flowing mountain streams
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Western US/Eastern Palearctic
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Carabidae
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Ground
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Beetles
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A huge family: the first ventrite is divided by hind coxae
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Worldwide
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Dytiscidae
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Predaceous Diving
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Beetles
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Hind legs modified for swimming
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Worldwide
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Gyrinidae
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Whirligig
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Beetles
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Surface swimmers with divided eyes
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Worldwide
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Haliplidae
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Crawling Water
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Beetles
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Clumsy swimmers in still waters
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Worldwide
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Noteridae
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Burrowing Water
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Beetles
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Burrow through pond substrate
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Worldwide
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Rhysodidae
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Wrinkled Bark
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Beetles
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Deeply grooved thorax and elytra
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Worldwide
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Trachypachidae
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False Ground
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Beetles
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Hind coxae extend to elytral margins
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Northern Holarctic/Chile
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Meruidae
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Water Cascade
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Beetles
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Single species found in waterfalls
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Venezuela
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Aspidtyidae
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Cliff Water
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Beetles
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Live on rocks with thin layer of water
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South Africa/China
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Hygrobiidae
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Screech
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Beetles
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Squeaking predators of oligochaete worms
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Palearctic/Australia
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Polyphaga
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Histeridae
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Clown
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Beetles
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Short elytra, 2 exposed tergites
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Worldwide
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Sphaeritidae
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False Clown
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Beetles
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Genus Sphaerites
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Holarctic
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Synteliidae
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Sap-Flow
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Beetles
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Genus Syntelia
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Oriental/Mexico
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Epimetopidae
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No common name
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Pronotum projection forms shelf over head
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Neotropical/Afrotropical/Oriental
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Georissidae
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Minute Mud-Loving
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Beetles
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Minute, wet soil dwellers that practice psammophory
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Worldwide
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Helophoridae
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No common name
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Genus Helophorus, formerly in Hydrophilidae
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Primarily Holarctic
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Hydrochidae
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No common name
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Genus Hydrochus, formerly in Hydrophilidae
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Worldwide
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Hydrophilidae
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Water Scavenger
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Beetles
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Aquatic, with long palps, short antennae, keeled sterna
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Worldwide
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Spercheidae
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No common name
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Genus Sphercheus
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Primarily Oriental/Afrotropical
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Hydraenidae
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Minute Moss
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Beetles
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Tiny, in marginal vegetation of streams
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Worldwide
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Ptiliidae
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Featherwing
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Beetles
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Smallest beetles, most <1mm
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Worldwide
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Agyrtidae
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Primitive Carrion
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Beetles
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Elytra with 9-10 punctate striae
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Holarctic
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Leiodidae
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Round Fungus
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Beetles
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Tiny, round, with small eigth antennomere
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Worldwide
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Silphidae
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Carrion
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Beetles
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Feed on decaying organic material
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Worldwide
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Staphylinidae
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Rove
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Beetles
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World's largest animal family, often w/ short elytra
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Worldwide
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Pleocomidae
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Rain
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Beetles
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Emerge in response to rain
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Western USA
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Geotrupidae
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Earth-Boring Dung
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Beetles
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Coprophagous excavators
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Worldwide
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Belohinidae
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No common name
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Belohina inexpectata
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Madagascar
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Passalidae
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Bess
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Beetles
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Subsocial, stridulating beetles in log galleries
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Worldwide except Palearctic
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Trogidae
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Hide
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Beetles
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Last scavengers on dry remains
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Worldwide
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Glaresidae
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Enigmatic Scarab
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Beetles
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Fossorial scarabs in sandy, arid areas
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Worldwide except Australia
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Diphyllostomatidae
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False Stag
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Beetles
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Antennal club not capable of being tightly closed
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California
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Lucanidae
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Stag
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Beetles
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Elbowed scarab antennae, males often with impressive mandibles
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Worldwide
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Ochodaeidae
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Sand-Loving Scarab
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Beetles
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Prominent mandibles visible from above
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Worldwide except Australia
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Hybosoridae
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Scavenger Scarab
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Beetles
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3-Segmented antennal clup that can be 'cupped'
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Worldwide
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Glaphyridae
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Bumble Bee Scarab
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Beetles
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Elytra widely divergent at apex
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Holarctic/Neotropical
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Scarabaeidae
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Scarab
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Beetles
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Huge family with lamellate antennae clubs
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Worldwide
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Decliniidae
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No common name
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Genus Declinia
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East Russia/Japan
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Eucinetidae
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Plate-Thigh
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Beetles
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Elliptical, with large coxal plates
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Worldwide
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Clambidae
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Minute
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Beetles
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Tiny, convex, many can roll into a ball
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Worldwide
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Scirtidae
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Marsh
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Beetles
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Larvae aquatic with multisegmented antennae
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Worldwide
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Dascillidae
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Soft-Bodied Plant
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Beetles
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Dense grey and/or brown vestiture covers entire body
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Worldwide except Africa and Central America
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Rhipiceridae
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Cicada Parasite
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Beetles
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Larva attach to cicada nymphs
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Worldwide
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Schizopodidae
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False Jewel
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Beetles
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Wide metepisternum, natural history unknown
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Southwest USA
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Buprestidae
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Metallic Wood-Boring
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Beetles
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Cylindrical, prized by collectors
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Worldwide
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Byrrhidae
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Pill
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Beetles
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Has ventral recesses for retracting legs
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Primarily Northern Hemisphere/Australia
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Elmidae
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Riffle
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Beetles
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Live in rapid cool streams
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Worldwide
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Dryopidae
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Long-Toed Water
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Beetles
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Extended claws, larvae terrestrial, adults aquatic
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Worldwide except Australia
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Lutrochidae
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Travertine
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Beetles
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Aquatic, live where travertine is deposited
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New World
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Limnichidae
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Minute Marsh-Loving
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Beetles
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Tiny, riparian, on plants and in soil
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Worldwide
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Heteroceridae
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Variegated Mud-Loving
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Beetles
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Sandy shores, resemble small scarabs
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Worldwide
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Psephenidae
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Water-Penny
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Beetles
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Distinctive flat, circular, aquatic larvae
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Worldwide
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Cneoglossidae
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No common name
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Genus Cneoglossa
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Neotropical
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Ptilodactylidae
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Toe-Winged
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Beetles
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Antennae long, w/ slender process on segments 4-10
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Worldwide
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Chelonariidae
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Turtle
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Beetles
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Genus Chelonarium
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New World/Oriental/Australasian
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Eulichadidae
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Forest Stream
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Beetles
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Larvae aquatic, adults in riparian vegetation
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Southeast Asia/California
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Callirhipidae
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Callirhipid Cedar
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Beetles
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Larvae in rotten wood, esp. white-rotted fungi. Zenoa picea in the USA.
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Worldwide (Warmer Regions)
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Artematopodidae
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Artematopodid
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Beetles
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Resemble click beetles covered with setae & reduced prosternal keel
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New World/East Asia/Southern Europe
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Brachypsectridae
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Texas
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Beetles
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Larvae are nonspecific ambush predators
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Nearctic/Oriental/Australasian
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Cantharidae
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Soldier
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Beetles
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Soft-bodied, important pollinators and insect predators
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Worldwide
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Cerophytidae
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Rare Click
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Beetles
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Body short, head deflexed with protruding frons, and trochanters long
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Holarctic/Neotropical
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Elateridae
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Click
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Beetles
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prosternal spine fits into a groove on the mesosternum
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Worldwide
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Eucnemidae
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False Click
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Beetles
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Second antennomere placed subterminally from the first
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Worldwide
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Lampyridae
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Firefly
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Beetles
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Soft-bodied, head concealed from above, bioluminescent
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Worldwide
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Lycidae
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Net-Winged
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Beetles
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Elongate,many red or orange to advertise toxicity
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Worldwide
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Omethidae
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False Soldier
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Beetles
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Labrum distinct and sclerotized, biology mostly unknown
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Holarctic/Oriental
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Phengodidae
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Glowworm
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Beetles
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Adult females are larviform, bioluminescent
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New World
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Telegeusidae
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Long-Lipped
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Beetles
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Distinctive long palps
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Neotropical
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Rhagophthalmidae
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Asian Glowworm
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Beetles
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Adult females are larviform, bioluminescent
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Oriental
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Sinopyrophoridae
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No common name
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Sinopyrophorus schimmeli is the only known species
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China
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Throscidae
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Small False Click
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Beetles
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Soil-inhabiting larvae feed on ectomycorrhizal fungi on tree roots
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Worldwide
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Rhinorhipidae
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No common name
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Rhinorhipus tamborinensis is the only known species
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Australia
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Derodontidae
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Tooth-Necked Fungus
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Beetles
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Anterior edge of scutellum abruptly and sharply elevated above mesoscutum
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Holarctic/Australia/New Zealand/Chile
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Nosodendridae
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Wounded-Tree
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Beetles
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Adults and larvae in actively flowing fluxes slime fluxes or tree wounds
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Worldwide (Mostly Tropical)
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Jacobsoniidae
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Jacobson's
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Beetles
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Tiny, elongate, live in bat guano in caves or leaf litter of warm forests
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Scattered (Mostly Tropical)
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Dermestidae
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Skin
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Beetles
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Feed on dry organic matter such as carcasses or museum specimens
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Worldwide
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Endecatomidae
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No common name
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Genus Endecatomus
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Holarctic
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Bostrichidae
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Horned Powder-Post
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Beetles
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Small, stout, cylindrical, w/ head bent downward, concealed from above
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Worldwide
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Ptinidae
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Death-Watch
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Beetles
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Small wood borers of various forms, some can make ticking noises from in wood
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Worldwide
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Lymexylidae
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Ship-Timber
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Beetles
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Long & slender wood borers, many are pests to trees or timber structures
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Worldwide
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Phloiophilidae
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No common name
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Phloiophilus edwardsii is the only known species
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Palearctic
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Trogossitidae
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Bark-Gnawing
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Beetles
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Cylindrical or slightly flattened, mostly under bark
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Worldwide
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Chaetosomatidae
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No common name
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Genera Chaetosoma, Chaetosomodes, Malgassochaetus
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New Zealand
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Metaxinidae
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No common name
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Metaxina ornata is the only known species
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New Zealand
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Thanerocleridae
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No common name
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Xylophilous or predacious, red beetles
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Worldwide
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Cleridae
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Checkered
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Beetles
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Body long and narrow, covered with bristly hairs, mostly predators and pollinators
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Worldwide
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Acanthocnemidae
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No common name
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Acanthocnemus nigricans is the only known species
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Australia
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Phycosecidae
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No common name
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Genus Phycosecis
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Oceania
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Prionoceridae
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No common name
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Mostly pollen feeders; soft-bodied, elongate, elytra with hairs
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Palaeotropical/Palearctic
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Mauroniscidae
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No common name
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Former Dasytinae, about 5 genera
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New World
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Melyridae
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Soft-Winged Flower
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Beetles
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Small. colorful, soft-bodied predators often found on flowers
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Worldwide
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Byturidae
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Fruitworm
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Beetles
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Small adults with fine, dense vestiture; larvae often in fruits
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Holarctic/Oriental
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Biphyllidae
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False Skin
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Beetles
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Live under the bark of dead trees and feed on fungi
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Worldwide
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Lophocateridae
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No common name
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Formerly considered bark-gnawing beetles
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Worldwide
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Peltidae
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No common name
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Genus Peltis, formerly considered bark-gnawing beetles
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Holarctic
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Rhadalidae
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No common name
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Formerly considered soft-winged flower beetles
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Worldwide except Australasia
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Thymalidae
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No common name
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Formerly considered bark-gnawing beetles
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Holarctic/Oriental/South America
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Boganiidae
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No common name
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Pollenivorous on Cycads
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Southern Africa/Australia/New Caledonia
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Helotidae
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No common name
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Antennae retractable, w/ 3 segmented club, wing venation reduced
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Oriental
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Protocucujidae
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No common name
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Supposedly the most primitive extant cucujoidea but the group is understudied
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Australia/Chile
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Sphindidae
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Cryptic Slime Mold
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Beetles
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Tiny, w/ head partially visible from above. Scape and pedicel asymmetrically inflated
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Worldwide
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Erotylidae
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Pleasing Fungus
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Beetles
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Highly variable in form, larvae and adults feed on the fruiting bodies of fungi in decaying wood
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Worldwide
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Monotomidae
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Minute Clubbed
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Beetles
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Tiny, w/ 1-segmented antennal club
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Worldwide
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Hobartiidae
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No common name
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Genus Hobartius
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Australia/Chile
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Cryptophagidae
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Silken Fungus
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Beetles
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Feed on fungi in habitats such as rotting wood, leaf litter, stored products
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Worldwide
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Agapythidae
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No common name
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Agapytho foveicollis is the only known species
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New Zealand
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Priasilphidae
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No common name
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Genera Priasilpha and Chileosilpha
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New Zealand/Chile
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Phloeostichidae
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No common name
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Genera Bunyastichus, Phloeostichus, and Hymaea
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Australia/Palearctic
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Cucujidae
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Flat Bark
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Beetles
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Flattened, elongate body as they live under bark of dead trees
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Worldwide except Africa
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Silvanidae
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Silvanid Flat Bark
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Beetles
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Small fungivorous beetles, with some grain pests
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Worldwide
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Myraboliidae
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No common name
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Genus Myrabolia
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Australia
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Cavognathidae
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No common name
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Genus Taphropiestes
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Neotropical/Oceania
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Lamingtoniidae
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No common name
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Lamingtonium binnaberrense is the only known species
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Australia
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Passandridae
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Parasitic Flat Bark
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Beetles
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Larvae are ectoparasites of wood-inhabiting insects
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Worldwide except Palearctic
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Phalacridae
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Shining Flower
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Beetles
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Oval-shaped, tiny, convex, fungivorous or pollenivorous
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Worldwide
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Laemophloeidae
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Lined Flat Bark
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Beetles
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Body flattened, head and pronotum w/ sublateral lines, elytral cells, long antennae
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Worldwide
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Cybocephalidae
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No common name
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Oval-shaped, tiny, convex, shiny, able to roll into a ball
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Worldwide
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Tasmosalpingidae
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No common name
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Genus Tasmosalpingus
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Australia
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Cyclaxyridae
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Sooty Mold
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Beetles
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Genus Cyclaxyra, mycophagous associated with sooty mold
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New Zealand
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Kateretidae
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Short-Winged Flower
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Beetles
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Formerly Sap-feeding beetles, larvae develop in seed capsules, adults feed on flowers
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Worlwide except New Zealand
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Nitidulidae
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Sap-Feeding
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Beetles
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Small. oblong or oval, convex to flattened, head not concealed from above
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Worldwide
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Smicripidae
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Palmetto
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Beetles
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Recent family of tiny beetles found on decaying vegetation
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Nearctic
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Bothrideridae
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Dry Bark
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Beetles
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Small, cylindrical to somewhat flattened, elongate, live mostly under bark
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Worldwide
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Teredidae
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No common name
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Recent family; small, elongate, likely fungivorous
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Scattered (Mostly Old World Tropics)
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Euxestidae
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Well-Polished
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Beetles
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Fomerly minute bark beetles, tiny, oval-shaped, shiny
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Worldwide except Palearctic
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Murmidiidae
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Murmidius
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Beetles
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Very tiny, oval, under bark or in stored grain
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Scattered
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Cerylonidae
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Minute Bark
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Beetles
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Tiny, shiny, smooth, found under bark of dead trees or decaying plants
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Worldwide
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Alexiidae
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No common name
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Tiny, almost half spherical, fungivorous. Genus Sphaerosoma
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Palearctic
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Discolomatidae
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Discolomatid
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Beetles
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Small, circular, w/ lateral margins of the pronotum and elytra explanate
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Tropics
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Latridiidae
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Minute Brown Scavenger
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Beetles
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<3mm, elongate-oval, tarsal formula 3-3-3, brown. Fungivorous or in stored products
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Worldwide
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Akalyptoischiidae
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Akalyptoischiid Scavenger
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Beetles
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Genus Akalyptoischion, tiny, flightless, in leaf/nest litter
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Nearctic
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Corylophidae
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Minute Hooded
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Beetles
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Tiny, head covered by pronotum, antennae w/ 3-segmented club, pygidium exposed
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Worldwide
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Anamorphidae
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No common name
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Former handsome fungus beetles, tiny, round, often brown
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Worldwide
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Endomychidae
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Handsome Fungus
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Beetles
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Small, various forms, pseudotrimerous tarsi, fungivorous, often under bark of dead trees
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Worldwide
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Mycetaeidae
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No common name
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Former handsome fungus beetles, genera Mycetaea and Agaricophilus
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Palearctic/Eastern USA/South Africa
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Eupsilobiidae
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No common name
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Former handsome fungus beetles, contains genus Eidoreus
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Neotropical
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Coccinellidae
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Lady
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Beetles
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Small, round, convex, pseudotrimerous tarsi, pronotum often conceals head. Mostly predacious
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Worldwide
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Aderidae
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Ant-Like Leaf
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Beetles
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Tiny, oval or elongate, head wide and constricted at base. Adults under leaves
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Worldwide
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Anthicidae
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Ant-Like Flower
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Beetles
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Elongate, ant-like, adults on flowers, larvae on decaying vegetation
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Worldwide
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Archeocrypticidae
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Cryptic Fungus
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Beetles
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Tiny, oval or round, saprophagous. Contains genus Enneboeus
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Worldwide
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Boridae
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Conifer Bark
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Beetles
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Elongate, black, live under bark of dead standing conifers
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Holarctic/Australia
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Ciidae
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Minute Tree-Fungus
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Beetles
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Small, cylindrical, fungivorous on polypores
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Worldwide
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Ischaliidae
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Broad-Hipped Flower
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Beetles
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Ant-like, body notable wider than pronotum and head. Genus Ischalia
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Nearctic/Oriental
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Melandryidae
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False Darkling
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Beetles
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Oval to elongate, often convex, antennae 11 segmented, insertion visible from above
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Worldwide
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Meloidae
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Blister
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Beetles
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Soft bodied, cylindrical, elytra rolled over abdomen. Hemolymph contains cantharidin
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Worldwide
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Mordellidae
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Tumbling Flower
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Beetles
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Small, hunchbacked, wedge-shaped, often on flowers
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Worldwide
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Mycetophagidae
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Hairy Fungus
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Beetles
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Small, dark, often oval-shaped w/ fine hairs. Fungivorous
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Worldwide
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Mycteridae
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Palm And Flower
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Beetles
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Various forms, some associated with palm trees. Contains Genera Hemipeplus & Mycterus
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Worldwide
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Oedemeridae
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False Blister
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Beetles
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Elongate, head not constricted posteriorly, prothorax widest anteriorly, adults on flowers
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Worldwide
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Prostomidae
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Jugular-Horned
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Beetles
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Elongate, parallel sided, prognathous with large jugular process, tarsi 4-4-4
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Holarctic/Australiasian/Oriental
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Pyrochroidae
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Fire-Colored
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Beetles
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Often black with some red, head with distinctive neck.Attracted to cantharidin
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Worldwide
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Pythidae
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Dead Log
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Beetles
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Drab, elongate, often widened posteriorly, legs slender, under bark
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Worldwide
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Ripiphoridae
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Wedge-Shaped
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Beetles
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Small, flabetllate antennae, resemble tumbling flower beetles with blunt pygidium. Hypermetamorphic
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Worldwide
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Salpingidae
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Narrow-Waisted Bark
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Beetles
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Head small or produced into broad flat rostrum, body much wider than thorax, on decaying bark
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Worldwide
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Scraptiidae
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False Flower
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Beetles
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Tiny, resemble tumbling flower beetles without spine-like pygidium. Adults common on flowers
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Worldwide
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Stenotrachelidae
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False Longhorn
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Beetles
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Elongate, elytra & pronotum widest at base and narrow apically, legs slender w/ long tarsi
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Holarctic/Oriental
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Synchroidae
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Synchroa Bark
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Beetles
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Superficially resemble click beetles with long tarsi. Under bark
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Nearctic/Oriental
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Tenebrionidae
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Darkling
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Beetles
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Highly variable in form and ecology, Antennae 11 segmented, tarsi 4-4-4, larvae are false wireworms
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Worldwide
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Tetratomidae
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Polypore Fungus
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Beetles
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Elongate to broadly oval, may resemble darkling beetles. On bracket fungi
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Worldwide
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Zopheridae
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Ironclad
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Beetles
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Variable in form, includes the beetles with the strongest exoskeleton
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Worldwide
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Pterogeniidae
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No common name
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Fungivorous in forests, includes genera Histanocerus, and Pterogenius
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Oriental
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Ulodidae
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No common name
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Generally elongate, drab, w/ rough tuberculate body surface. Fungivorous
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Australasia/Chile
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Promecheilidae
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No common name
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Elongate but not slender, antennae 11 segmented, head narrows behind eye
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Australasia/Chile
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Chalcodryidae
|
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No common name
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Elongate, with proportionally long, convex elytra. Contains genus Chalcodrya
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Australasia
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Trictenotomidae
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No common name
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Huge, resemble prioninae beetles but with tarsi 5-5-4, develop in wood in montane forests
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Oriental
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Cerambycidae
|
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Longhorn
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Beetles
|
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Elongate with broad elytral shoulders and characteristic long antennae. Larvae are wood borers
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Worldwide
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Disteniidae
|
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Disteniid
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Beetles
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Sometimes treated as a longhorn subfamily, differences primarily in larvae morphology.
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New World/Oriental/Afrotropical
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Vesperidae
|
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Vesperid
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Beetles
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Sometimes treated within the longhorn family, larvae on roots of herbacious plants
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Neotropical/Mediterranean/Oriental
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Oxypeltidae
|
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Oxypeltid
|
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Beetles
|
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Sometimes treated as a longhorn subfamily, body massive w/ small head. Hind wings violet
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Chile/Argentina
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Chrysomelidae
|
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Leaf
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Beetles
|
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Highly variable in form, w/ pseudotetramerous tarsi, feed on living plant material
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Worldwide
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Megalopodidae
|
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Megalopodid
|
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Beetles
|
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Closely related to leaf beetles with some morphological differences. All tibia w/ 2 apical spurs
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Worldwide
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Orsodacnidae
|
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Ravenous Leaf
|
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Beetles
|
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Sometimes treated as a subfamily of leaf beetles, lack sensorial setae on prontum
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Holarctic/Neotropical
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Nemonychidae
|
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Pine Flower
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Weevils
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Weevils w/ straight antennae, all ventrites free, no lateral carinae. Feed on pollen
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Holarctic/Neotropical/Australasian
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Anthribidae
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Fungus
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Weevils
|
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Weevils w/ straight antennae apically clubbed, ventrites 1-4 fused, lateral carinae. Body form varies
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Worldwide
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Belidae
|
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Cycad
|
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Weevils
|
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Weevils w/ straight antennae, foretibia w/ comb of bristles. Adults feed on pollen
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Southern Hemisphere/Southern USA
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Caridae
|
|
No common name
|
|
Weevils w/ straight antennae, lack lateral carinae & lack spiracles on tergites 6-7. On cypress trees
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Australasia/Neotropical
|
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Attelabidae
|
|
Leaf Rolling
|
|
Weevils
|
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Weevils with straight antennae, prothorax narrower than base of elytra. Larvae in rolled leaves
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Worldwide
|
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Brentidae
|
|
Straight-Snouted
|
|
Weevils
|
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Weevils with straight antennae, long & narrow or pear-shaped, ventrites 1-2 fused, Xylophagous
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Worldwide
|
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Brachyceridae
|
|
No common name
|
|
Weevils with elbowed antennae, formerly included as true weevils. Includes genus Brachycerus
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Worldwide
|
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Curculionidae
|
|
Snout and Bark
|
|
Beetles (True Weevils)
|
|
Weevils with elbowed antennae, downward-curved snout. May be the largest animal family in the world
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Worldwide
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