Glaphyridae

Glaphyridae is a family of beetles, commonly known as bumble bee scarab beetles. There are eight extant genera with about 80 species distributed worldwide[1] and two extinct genera described from the fossil record of China.[2][3] The have been documented cases of flower-beetle interaction, in the southeast Mediterranean region between red bowl-shapedflowers and Glaphyridae beetles. [4]

Glaphyridae
Glaphyrus maurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Superfamily:
Scarabaeoidea
Family:
Glaphyridae

Macleay, 1819
Genera

See also

References
  1. 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 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  2. G. V. Nikolajev; D. Ren (2012). "New species of the genus Lithohypna Nikolajev, Wang et Zhang, 2011 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Glaphyridae) from the Yixian Formation, China". Euroasian Entomological Journal. 11 (3): 209–211.
  3. Hongyun Zhao; Ming Bai; Chungkun Shih; Dong Ren (2016). "Two new glaphyrids (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) from the Jehol Biota, China". Cretaceous Research. 59: 1–9. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.10.026.
  4. Martínez-Harms, J. et al. Evidence of red sensitive photoreceptors in Pygopleurus israelitus (Glaphyridae: Coleoptera) and its implications for beetle pollination in the southeast Mediterranean. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural & Behavioral Physiology, [s. l.], v. 198, n. 6, p. 451–463, 2012. DOI 10.1007/s00359-012-0722-5.
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