Glaphyridae is a family of beetles, commonly known as bumble bee scarab beetles. There are eight extant genera with about 80 species distributed worldwide[1] and two extinct genera described from the Aptian aged Yixian Formation of China.[2][3] There are cases of flower-beetle interactions, in the southeast Mediterranean region between red bowl-shaped flowers and Glaphyridae beetles.[4]
| Glaphyridae Temporal range:
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| Glaphyrus maurus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Superfamily: | Scarabaeoidea |
| Family: | Glaphyridae Macleay, 1819 |
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See also
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edit- ^ Michael A. Ivie (2002). Ross H. Arnett & Michael Charles Thomas (ed.). American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Volume 2 of American Beetles. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- ^ G. V. Nikolajev; D. Ren (2012). "New species of the genus Lithohypna Nikolajev, Wang et Zhang, 2011 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Glaphyridae) from the Yixian Formation, China". Euroasian Entomological Journal. 11 (3): 209–211.
- ^ Hongyun Zhao; Ming Bai; Chungkun Shih; Dong Ren (2016). "Two new glaphyrids (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) from the Jehol Biota, China". Cretaceous Research. 59: 1–9. Bibcode:2016CrRes..59....1Z. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.10.026.
- ^ Martínez-Harms, J.; Vorobyev, M.; Schorn, J.; Shmida, A.; Keasar, T.; Homberg, U.; Schmeling, F.; Menzel, R. (2012). "Evidence of red sensitive photoreceptors in Pygopleurus israelitus (Glaphyridae: Coleoptera) and its implications for beetle pollination in the southeast Mediterranean". Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 198 (6): 451–463. doi:10.1007/s00359-012-0722-5. PMID 22526111. S2CID 16701563.
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