Overview
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Glaphyridae is a family of beetles, commonly known as The bumble bee scarab beetles. There are eight genera with about 80 species distributed worldwide1].
See also
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- List of subgroups of the order Coleoptera
- ^ Michael A. Ivie (2002). Ross H. Arnett & Michael Charles Thomas. ed. American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Volume 2 of American Beetles. CRC Press. ISBN 9780849309540.
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Taxonomy
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The Family Glaphyridae is a member of the Superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Here is the complete "parentage" of Glaphyridae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Order: Coleoptera
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Beetles
- Suborder: Polyphaga
Emery, 1886 - a genus of Blister Beetles (Meloidae)
- Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
- Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea
Latreille, 1802
- Family: Glaphyridae MacLeay, 1819 - Bumble Bee Scarab Beetles
- Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea
Latreille, 1802
- Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
- Suborder: Polyphaga
Emery, 1886 - a genus of Blister Beetles (Meloidae)
- Order: Coleoptera
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Beetles
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Family Glaphyridae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Subfamily (1): Glaphyrinae
- Genus (14): Amphicoma · Anthypna · Arctodium · Cretoglaphyrus · Eoglaphyrus · Eulasia · Glaphyrus · Hemiglaphyrus · Lichnanthe · Neolichnia · Pygopleurus · Rudeulasia · Solskiola · Vittateulasia
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 298 species and subspecies in the Family Glaphyridae.
Genera
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Amphicoma
Anthypna
Arctodium
Cretoglaphyrus
Eoglaphyrus
Eulasia
Glaphyrus
Hemiglaphyrus
Lichnanthe
Neolichnia
Pygopleurus
Rudeulasia
Solskiola
Vittateulasia
At least 5 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Vittateulasia.
More info about the Genus Vittateulasia may be found here.
References
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- ^ Michael A. Ivie (2002). Ross H. Arnett & Michael Charles Thomas. ed. American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Volume 2 of American Beetles. CRC Press. ISBN 9780849309540.
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