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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
COLEOPTERA
(beetles)
POLYPHAGA
(mainly terrestrial beetles)
Cucujiformia
(a group of beetles)
CUCUJOIDEA
(a superfamily of beetles)
NITIDULIDAE
(pollen and sap beetles)
Nitidulidae
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

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NITIDULIDAE (pollen and sap beetles)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #microphotos #refs
Species Cychramus luteus (F., 1787) (a pollen or sap beetle) 4 4  
Species Pocadius ferrugineus (F., 1775) (a pollen or sap beetle) 3   1
Species Pocadius lanuginosus Franz, 1969 (a pollen or sap beetle)     1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 7 (Clavicornia)
Key to the British genera of Nitidulidae: http://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeys/ Key to the British genera of Nitidulidae
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H., 1996 Pollen Beetles - Coleoptera: Kateretidae and Nitidulidae: meligethinae.

NITIDULIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 46 feeding and other relationships of NITIDULIDAE (pollen and sap beetles)

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