| Bostrichidae | |
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| Euderia squamosa | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Bostrichiformia |
| Superfamily: | Bostrichoidea |
| Family: | Bostrichidae Latreille, 1802 |
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| Diversity | |
| About 700 species | |
TheBostrichidae are a family of beetles with more than 700 described species. They are commonly calledauger beetles,false powderpost beetles, orhorned powderpost beetles. The head of most auger beetles cannot be seen from above, as it is downwardly directed and hidden by the thorax. Exceptions are thepowderpost beetles (subfamily Lyctinae), and members of the subfamilyPsoinae.
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Bostrychoplites cornutus has large, distinctive thoracic horns, and is found in parts of Africa and Arabia; it is often imported to Europe aslarvae in African wooden bowls ("ethnic souvenirs") .[1]
The fossil record of the family extends to the Cretaceous, with the oldest records being from the Cenomanian agedCharentese andBurmese ambers, belonging to the extant genusStephanopachys[2] and the extant subfamilies Dinoderinae[3] and Polycaoninae.[4]
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