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Soft-bodied Plant Beetles
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Soft-bodied Plant Beetles

Artematopodidae

Artematopodidae is a family of soft-bodied plant beetles in the superfamily Elateroidea. They are mostly found in understory forest foliage. The life history of the group is obscure, larvae of the genera Eurypogon and Macropogon likely feed on moss, while the larvae of Artematopus have been fed insect remains. The oldest fossils of the family date to the Middle Jurassic.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Artematopus

genusArtematopus

Eurypogon

genusEurypogon

Macropogon

genusMacropogon

Brevipogon

genusBrevipogon

Allopogonia

genusAllopogonia

Electribius

genusElectribius

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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 176417.