Family:
Leiodidae
Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Ecdysozoa > Panarthropoda > Tritocerebra > Arthopoda > Mandibulata > Atelocerata > Panhexapoda > Hexapoda
> Insecta
(insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola >
Holometabola > Coleoptera
(beetles)
> Polyphaga
> Superfamily: Staphylinoidea
Small beetles, 1.2 - 9.0 mm long, found in decaying plant
material such as leaf litter. Food consists mainly of fungal spores. There are
about eight genera and 16 species known from southern Africa.
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