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Parasitic Flat Bark Beetles
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Parasitic Flat Bark Beetles

Passandridae

Passandridae, the "parasitic flat bark beetles," are a family of beetles notable for being one of the very few beetle families with larvae that are, as far as known, exclusively ectoparasitic on the immature stages of other beetles and Hymenoptera.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Catogenus

genusCatogenus

Taphroscelidia

genusTaphroscelidia

Passandra

genusPassandra

Ancistria

genusAncistria

Aulonosoma

genusAulonosoma

Nicolebertia

genusNicolebertia

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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 174589.