Kateretidae also known as short-winged flower beetles are a family of beetles in the superfamily
Cucujoidea
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[ There are 10 extant and 4 extinct genera, and at least 40 described species.][ They are found worldwide except in New Zealand. Adults are ]anthophagous
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, feeding on flowers, while the larvae are spermatophagous inside the flower corolla.
Genera
* ''Amartus
''Amartus'' is a genus of short-winged flower beetles in the family Kateretidae
Kateretidae also known as short-winged flower beetles are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea. There are 10 extant and 4 extinct genera, and at least ...
'' LeConte, 1861 i c g b
* '' Anamartus'' Jelinek, 1976 g
* ''Anthonaeus
''Anthonaeus'' is a genus of short-winged flower beetles in the family Kateretidae
Kateretidae also known as short-winged flower beetles are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea. There are 10 extant and 4 extinct genera, and at le ...
'' Horn, 1879 i c g b
* '' Boreades'' Parson, 1943 i c g
* '' Brachyleptus'' Motschulsky, 1845 g
* ''Brachypterolus
''Brachypterolus'' is a genus of short-winged flower beetles in the family Kateretidae
Kateretidae also known as short-winged flower beetles are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea. There are 10 extant and 4 extinct genera, and a ...
'' Grouvelle, 1913 i c g b
* ''Brachypterus
''Brachypterus'' is a genus of short-winged flower beetles in the family Kateretidae
Kateretidae also known as short-winged flower beetles are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea. There are 10 extant and 4 extinct genera, and at ...
'' Kugelann, 1794 i c g b
* ''Heterhelus
''Heterhelus'' is a genus of short-winged flower beetles in the family Kateretidae
Kateretidae also known as short-winged flower beetles are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea. There are 10 extant and 4 extinct genera, and at le ...
'' DuVal, 1858 i c g b
* ''Kateretes
''Kateretes'' is a genus of short-winged flower beetles in the family Kateretidae. There are about six described species in ''Kateretes''.
Species
These six species belong to the genus ''Kateretes'':
* ''Kateretes dalmatinus'' (Sturm, 1844)
* '' ...
'' Herbst, 1793 i c g b
* '' Neobrachypterus'' Jelínek, 1979 i c g
*†'' Cretaretes'' Peris and Jelínek 2019 Burmese amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...
, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...
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*†'' Eoceniretes'' Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2008 g
*†'' Furcalabratum'' Poinar and Brown, 2018, Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
*†'' Lebanoretes'' Kirejtshuk and Azar 2008 Lebanese amber
Lebanese amber is fossilized resin found in Lebanon and southwest Syria. It dates back approximately 130-125 million years to the Barremian of the Early Cretaceous. It formed on what was then the northern coast of Gondwana, believed to be a tropi ...
, Early Cretaceous (Barremian
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Data sources: i = ITIS,[ c = Catalogue of Life,][ g = GBIF,][ b = Bugguide.net]
References
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Cucujoidea families
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