Family:
Nitidulidae (pollen beetles, sap beetles)
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> Insecta
(insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola >
Holometabola > Coleoptera
(beetles)
> Polyphaga > Superfamily: Cucujoidea
This is a large and very
varied family, both in morphology and habitat. They vary in length from
1-11mm and can be ovate or elongate, flattened or convex. They occupy various
niches: some feed on pollen, plants, decaying and fermenting fruit; some feed on
drying maize cobs causing damage; some live under bark and are probably
predators of bark beetles; Cybocephalus are all scale insect predators;
Pallodes and Pocadius live in fungi.
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