Sap beetle
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| Ipidia binotata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Cucujoidea |
| Family: | Nitidulidae Latreille, 1802 |
The sap beetles, also known as Nitidulidae, are a family of beetles.
They are small (2–6 mm) ovoid, usually dull-coloured beetles, with knobbed antennae. Some have red or yellow spots or bands. They feed mainly on decaying vegetable matter, over-ripe fruit, and sap. Sap beetles coexist with fungi species and live in habitats of coniferous trees. They are found all across Europe and Siberia and are the biggest nutudulid species known in those areas.[1] There are a few pest species. An example of a pest species is the strawberry sap beetle that infest crops in Brazil between the months of August and February.[2]
- the picnic beetle, Glischrochilus quadrisignatus
- the dusky sap beetle, Carpophilus lugubris
- the strawberry sap beetle, Stelidota geminata
- the small hive beetle, Aethina tumida
The oldest unambiguous fossils of the family date to the Early Cretaceous, belonging to the genus Crepuraea from the Aptian aged Zaza Formation of Russia.[3]
Classification
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The family includes these genera:[citation needed]
- Subfamily Calonecrinae Kirejtshuk, 1982
- Subfamily Maynipeplinae Kirejtshuk, 1998
- Subfamily Epuraeinae Kirejtshuk, 1986
- Subfamily Carpophilinae Erichson, 1842
- Carpophilus Stephens, 1830
- Epuraea Erichson, 1843
- Urophorus Murray, 1864
- Subfamily Amphicrossinae Kirejtshuk, 1986
- Subfamily Meligethinae Thomson, 1859
- Meligethes Stephens, 1830
- Pria Stephens, 1830
- Subfamily Nitidulinae Latreille, 1802
- Subfamily Cillaeinae Kirejtshuk & Audisio, 1986
- Cillaeopeplus Sharp, 1908
- Subfamily Cryptarchinae Thomson, 1859
- Cryptarcha Shuckard, 1839
- Glischrochilus Reitter, 1873
- Pityophagus Shuckard, 1839
- Subfamily Cybocephalinae Jacquelin du Val, 1858 (now frequently elevated to family status as Cybocephalidae)
- Cybocephalus Erichson, 1844
- Pastillus Endrödy-Younga, 1962
- Subfamily Prometopinae
- incertae sedis
References
- ^ Audisio, P., Cline, A., Mancini, E., Trizzino, M., Clayhills, T., Cline, A., & Sabatelli, S. (2016).
- ^ Moliterno, A., Martins, C., Szczerbowski, D., Zawadneak, M., & Zarbin, P. (2017). The Male Produced Aggregation Pheromone of a Strawberry Sap Beetle, Lobiopa insularis (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae). Journal Of Chemical Ecology, 43(6), 550-556. doi: 10.1007/s10886-017-0851-y
- ^ KIREJTSHUK, ALEXANDER G.; NEL, ANDRE (2018-03-27). "Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) from the Paleocene of Menat (France)". Zootaxa. 4402 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4402.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
External links
- sap beetles of Florida on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
- Keys for the identification of British Nitidulidae (the pollen beetles)
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