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Flat bark beetles
Cucujidae
The Cucujidae, "flat bark beetles," are a family of distinctively flat beetles found worldwide (except Africa and Antarctica) under the bark of dead trees. The family has received considerable taxonomic attention in recent years and now consists of 59 species distributed in four genera.
5 branches of this family, most-observed first
Cucujus
genusCucujus
Platisus
genusPlatisus
Pediacus
genusPediacus
Palaestes
genusPalaestes
Thesaurus
genusThesaurus
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 85716.