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COLEOPTERA, Misc. Families of Coleoptera -- <General Characteristics> [Latest Classification] Please refer also
to the following link for further details: Photos-1, Photos-2 Clausen (1940) reported on several
families of Coleoptera that are associated in varying capacities with ants,
some are definitely known to be predaceous on the ant broods, and others that
are principally scavengers. These
were Clavigeridae, Brentidae, Pselaphidae, Leptinidae and Paussidae. Park (1929) considered that Leptinus
testaceus Muell., and possibly the entire Leptinidae, exhibit a
facultative parasitism. Some Brentidae
and Cryptophagidae are found in bark and wood under conditions that indicate
they might be predaceous on other insects occupying the same habitat. Families
References: Please refer to <biology.ref.htm>, [Additional references
may be found at: MELVYL
Library] Besuchet,
C. 1956. Biologie, morphologie et systématique des Rhipidius (Col.
Rhipiphoridae). Mitt. schweiz. Ent.
Ges. 29: 73-144. Khnzorian, S. M. 1957. A new
representative of Rhipidius
from Armenian SSR (Coleoptera, Rhipiphoridae). Dok. Akad. Nauk Armiansk. SSR. 24: 231-32. Riek, E. F.
1955. The Australian Rhipidiine Parasites of Cockroaches
(Coleoptera: Rhipiphoridae). Austr. J. Zool. 3:
71-94. Selander, R.
B. 1957.
The systematic position of the genus Nephrites and the phylogenetic
relationships of the higher groups of Ripiphoridae (Coleoptera). Ann. Ent. Soc.
Amer.
50: 88-103. |