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Mauroniscidae
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Mauroniscidae

Mauroniscidae is a family of cleroid beetles, formerly included in the family Melyridae. There are presently five or six genera and roughly 30 described species in Mauroniscidae, all of which are native to the Americas. Almost nothing is known about their biology.

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5 branches of this family, most-observed first

Mecomycter

genusMecomycter

Amecomycter

genusAmecomycter

Scuromanius

genusScuromanius

Mauroniscus

genusMauroniscus

Mectemycor

genusMectemycor

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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 342446.