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Carpophilinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family
Nitidulidae The sap beetles, also known as Nitidulidae, are a family (biology), family of beetles. They are small (2–6 mm) ovoid, usually dull-coloured beetles, with knobbed antenna (biology), antennae. Some have red or yellow spots or bands. They fe ...
. There are at least 70 described species in Carpophilinae.


Genera

* '' Amphicrossus'' Erichson, 1843 * '' Aphenolia'' Reitter, 1884 * ''
Carpophilus ''Carpophilus'' is a genus of sap beetles. They are agricultural pests that cause feeding damage to a variety of fruits, grains and other food products worldwide. The genus contains a great number of species. Description Adult ''Carpophilus'' ...
'' Stephens, 1830 * '' Caplothorax'' Kirejtshuk, 1997 * ''
Epuraea ''Epuraea'' is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae, first described in 1843 by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson. There are at least 40 described species in ''Epuraea''. Their most notable food source is sap but these beetles also f ...
'' Erichson, 1843 * '' Nitops'' Murray, 1864 * ''
Urophorus ''Urophorus'' is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are at least two described species in ''Urophorus''. Species These two species belong to the genus ''Urophorus'': * '' Urophorus humeralis'' (Fabricius, 1798) (pi ...
'' Murray, 1864


References

* Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ''ZooKeys, vol. 88'', 1–972. * Habeck, Dale H. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 77. Nitidulidae Latreille 1802". ''American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea'', 311–315. * Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". ''Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2'', 779–1006.


Further reading


NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Carpophilinae
* Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida . * Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press. * Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company. Nitidulidae Beetle subfamilies {{Beetle-stub