Minute Bog and Skiff Beetles
Myxophaga
Myxophaga is the second smallest suborder of the Coleoptera after Archostemata, consisting of roughly 65 species of small to minute beetles in four families. The members of this suborder are aquatic and semiaquatic, and feed on algae.
4 branches of this suborder, most-observed first
Skiff Beetles
familyHydroscaphidae
Minute Bog Beetles
familySphaeriusidae
Minute Hygropetric Beetles
familyTorridincolidae
Lepiceridae
familyLepiceridae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 340472.