OEDEMERIDAE Latreille, 1810
(thick-legged flower beetles)

OEDEMERIDAE (thick-legged flower beetles) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

OEDEMERIDAE (thick-legged flower beetles) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Chrysanthia geniculata
a thick-legged flower beetle
Species 1 trophisms
Oedemera
thick-legged flower beetles
Genus 1 trophisms 1 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyOEDEMERIDAE (thick-legged flower beetles)
SuperfamilyTENEBRIONOIDEA (narrow timber beetles)
Series Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for OEDEMERIDAE (thick-legged flower beetles)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Buck, F.D. 1954 Coleoptera: Lagriidae, Alleculidae, Tetratomidae, Melandryidae etc Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol V. Part 9, 30pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 8 Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 8, 388pp, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld

OEDEMERIDAE (thick-legged flower beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to OEDEMERIDAE (thick-legged flower beetles):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 111 images of OEDEMERIDAE (thick-legged flower beetles)
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