Nitidulidae {family} - Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera;

The sap beetles, also known as Nitidulidae, are a family of beetles. They are small (2–6 mm) ovoid, usually dull-coloured beetles, with knobbed antennae. Some have red or yellow spots or bands. They feed mainly on decaying vegetable matter, over-ripe fruit, and sap. Some sap beetle species coexist with fungi species and live in habitats of coniferous trees. These fungi-dependent beetles are found in all across Europe and Siberia and are the biggest nutudulid species known in those areas. Other species like the Australian Chychramptodes murrayi are known to feed on scale insects. There are a few pest species, like the strawberry sap beetle that infest crops in Brazil between the months of August and February. Some common sap beetles include: the picnic beetle, Glischrochilus quadrisignatus the dusky sap beetle, Carpophilus lugubris the strawberry sap beetle, Stelidota geminata the small hive beetle, Aethina tumida The oldest unambiguous fossils of the family date to the Early Cretaceous, belonging to the genus Crepuraea from the Aptian aged Zaza Formation of Russia. full article at Wikipedia

Specimen Records:	18,062	Public Records:	11,256
Specimens with Sequences:	17,072	Public Species:	356
Specimens with Barcodes:	15,542	Public BINs:	902
Species:	399
Species With Barcodes:	282
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Costa Rica 6019 Ghana 236 South Africa 144 Canada 1736 Norway 205 Ecuador 141 Germany 968 Argentina 203 Colombia 114 Peru 827 Brazil 194 Thailand 106 United States 556 Malaysia 192 Australia 102 Pakistan 535 China 176 Honduras 82 Egypt 247 Austria 147