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  9. ›Lymexyloidea
Ship-timber Beetles
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Ship-timber Beetles

Lymexylidae

The Lymexylidae (historically often spelled Lymexylonidae), also known as ship-timber beetles, are a family of wood-boring beetles. Lymexylidae belong to the suborder Polyphaga and are the sole member of the superfamily Lymexyloidea.

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5 branches of this family, most-observed first

Atractocerinae

subfamilyAtractocerinae

Hylecoetinae

subfamilyHylecoetinae

Melittommatinae

subfamilyMelittommatinae

Lymexylinae

subfamilyLymexylinae

Arractocetus

genusArractocetus

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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 246114.