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Short-winged Flower Beetles
Kateretidae
Kateretidae also known as short-winged flower beetles are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea. There are 10 extant and 4 extinct genera, and at least 40 described species. They are found worldwide except in New Zealand. Adults are anthophagous, feeding on flowers, while the larvae are spermatophagous inside the flower corolla.
14 branches of this family, most-observed first

Brachypterus
genusBrachypterus
Amartus
genusAmartus

Kateretes
genusKateretes
Brachypterolus
genusBrachypterolus

Heterhelus
genusHeterhelus

Brachyleptus
genusBrachyleptus

Anthonaeus
genusAnthonaeus

Notobrachypterus
genusNotobrachypterus

Jelinekiella
genusJelinekiella

Cercometes
genusCercometes

Platamartus
genusPlatamartus

Neobrachypterus
genusNeobrachypterus
Anamartus
genusAnamartus
Boreades
genusBoreades
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 332219.