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The Curculionidae are a family of weevils, commonly called snout beetles or true weevils. They are one of the largest animal families with 6,800 genera and 83,000 [ 1 ] species described worldwide. They are the sister group to the family Brentidae .
While a few drawings were done in black ink or pencil, most were finely enhanced with watercolor. Many were published in Flora Parisiensis , [ 53 ] by Poiteau and Turpin (1808) and some by Turpin (and Ernestine Panckoucke ) in Flore médicale [ 54 ] by François-Pierre Chaumeton (1814–1820).
Kateretidae also known as short-winged flower beetles are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] There are 10 extant and 4 extinct genera , and at least 40 described species .
Mordellistena goetzi is a species of beetle belonging to the family Mordellidae, which is commonly known as tumbling flower beetles. These beetles are small in size, typically measuring between 2 and 6 millimeters in length, and are characterized by their narrow and elongated bodies.
Eudicella gralli, sometimes called the flamboyant flower beetle or striped love beetle, is a brightly coloured member of the scarab beetle family, in the subfamily known as flower beetles. Their shells seem to have a prismatic quality, refracting the ambient light to give the green of their carapace a rainbow tint.
The family Scraptiidae is a small group of tenebrionoid beetles sometimes called false flower beetles. There are about 400 species in 30 genera with a world-wide distribution. The adults are found on flowers, sometimes in large numbers, [1] but are also found on foliage.
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 Aptian aged Yixian Formation of China.
The family Mycteridae is a small group of tenebrionoid beetles with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name palm and flower beetles. The family Mycteridae is distributed worldwide. There are about 30 genera and 160 species in three subfamilies Mycterinae, Hemipeplinae and Lacconotinae (=Eurypinae). [1]