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Declinia

Decliniidae is a family of beetles belonging to Scirtoidea. It contains the single genus Declinia with two species, D. relicta and D. versicolor, found in the Russian Far East and Japan, respectively. Little is known of their ecology, and their larvae are unknown. Specimens of D. relicta were found with pollen grains in their gut.

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Declinia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Superfamily: Scirtoidea
Family: Decliniidae
Nikitsky, Lawrence, Kirejtshuk & Gratshev, 1994
Genus: Declinia
Nikitsky, Lawrence, Kirejtshuk & Gratshev, 1994

Decliniidae is a family of beetles belonging to Scirtoidea. It contains the single genus Declinia with two species, D. relicta and D. versicolor, found in the Russian Far East and Japan, respectively.1 Little is known of their ecology, and their larvae are unknown. Specimens of D. relicta were found with pollen grains in their gut.2

Species

  • Declinia relicta Nikitsky, Lawrence, Kirejtshuk & Gratshev, 1994
  • Declinia versicolor Sakai & Satô, 1996
References

References

  1. Decliniidae, Declinia at the Tree of Life Web Project. Retrieved on 13 April 2013.
  2. Lawrence, John F.. "Scirtoidea Fleming, 1821: Coleoptera, Beetles". Handbook of Zoology Online, edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.