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False Flower Beetles
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False Flower Beetles

Scraptiidae

The family Scraptiidae is a small group of beetles 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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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 173241.