SCRAPTIIDAE Gistel, 1848
(a family of tumbling flower beetles)

SCRAPTIIDAE (a family of tumbling flower beetles) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

SCRAPTIIDAE (a family of tumbling flower beetles) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilySCRAPTIIDAE (a family of tumbling 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 SCRAPTIIDAE (a family of tumbling flower beetles)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Buck, F.D. 1954 *** Coleoptera: Lagriidae, Alleculidae, Tetratomidae, Melandryidae etc ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol V. Part 9, 30pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London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
Levey, B. 2009 Coleoptera: Scraptiidae Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, Part 18, 32pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

SCRAPTIIDAE (a family of tumbling 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 SCRAPTIIDAE (a family of tumbling flower beetles):

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