ANTHICIDAE Latreille, 1819
(antlike beetles)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyANTHICIDAE (antlike beetles)
SuperfamilyTENEBRIONOIDEA (narrow timber beetles)
Series Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Buck, F.D. 1954 Coleoptera: Lagriidae, Alleculidae, Tetratomidae, Melandryidae etc Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol V. Part 9, 30pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 8 Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 8, 388pp, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld
Telnov, D. 2010 Ant-like flower beetles (Coleoptera: Anthicidae) of the UK, Ireland and Channel Isles Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist. 23(2): 99-117.

ANTHICIDAE (antlike beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ANTHICIDAE (antlike beetles)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for ANTHICIDAE (antlike beetles)
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