Coleoptera37 species

Family False Flower Beetles (Scraptiidae)

Scraptiidae is a family in the order Coleoptera. Browse 37 named species recorded in this family, or open an individual profile for its available identification and natural-history information.

Species in Scraptiidae (37)

Anaspis fasciata

A small (about 4 mm) elongate beetle with black and orangey red elytra. Around Hawthorn and Blackthorn blossom and open Spring flowers. Fairly common and widely distributed over much of England and Wales with fewer records from Scotland.

Anaspis frontalis

2.5-4.4mm. This is the most common of the genus, often associated with Hawthorn blossom. It is generally all black, usually with some yellow on the front of the head and the four basal antennal segments also yellow. The legs are generally except the

Anaspis maculata

2.4-3.1mm. This is a small, elongate beetle which is usually yellowish-brown with variable black markings. However there are several colour forms including an all-yellow variant. The standard and most common form has a dark triangular mark around the

Anaspis regimbarti

Length: 2.8 to 3.8 mm. The body is predominantly black with orange pronotum. The antennae are black with some orange towards the base, the legs are also predominantly orange. Although it is striking in appearance there are other very similar species,

Diclidia bicincta

Identification: body typically multicolored, base color testaceous, elytra usually with two fasciae which may be reduced to two pairs of maculae, rarely with apical half infuscate, pronotum with dark cloud or not, occasionally unicolorous dorsally Ty

Diclidia fuscula

Identification: coloration highly variable, from all-dark to bicolored to all-pale • holotype

Diclidia laetula

Identification: body testaceous, typically with infuscate sub-scutellar cloud, median and subapical bands, infuscate regions variable, bands sometimes separated into maculae and suture sometimes infuscate, some individuals unicolorous, testaceous typ

Diclidia spinea

Identification: body testaceous with elytra variably infuscate, ranging from entirely testaceous to slightly banded, only infuscate apically, or entirely weakly infuscate

Naucles basalis

Identification: the elytra piceous with a spot at the shoulders and the sides towards the apex reddish or testaceous; the intermediate joints of the antennae infuscate. (Champion, 1891) Det. Andrew Johnston, 2023 Type Locality: Guatemala, Capetillo,