Declinia
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
Superfamily: | Scirtoidea |
Family: | Decliniidae Nikitsky, Lawrence, Kirejtshuk & Gratshev, 1994 |
Genus: | Declinia Nikitsky, Lawrence, Kirejtshuk & Gratshev, 1994 |
Decliniidae is a family of beetles belonging to Scirtoidea. It contains the single genus Declinia with two species, D. relicta and D. versicolor, found in the Russian Far East and Japan, respectively.[1] Little is known of their ecology, and their larvae are unknown. Specimens of D. relicta were found with pollen grains in their gut.[2]
Species
[edit]- Declinia relicta Nikitsky, Lawrence, Kirejtshuk & Gratshev, 1994
- Declinia versicolor Sakai & Satô, 1996
References
[edit]- ^ Decliniidae, Declinia at the Tree of Life Web Project. Retrieved on 13 April 2013.
- ^ Lawrence, John F.. "Scirtoidea Fleming, 1821: Coleoptera, Beetles". Handbook of Zoology Online, edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.