Family:
Scaphidiidae
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> Insecta
(insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola >
Holometabola > Coleoptera
(beetles)
> Polyphaga
> Superfamily: Staphylinoidea
Adults are small beetles (size range 0.8 - 7.0 mm) that feed
on spores and hyphae of fungi, particularly mushrooms and moulds in and on
decaying wood. There are about six genera and 10 species
known from southern Africa.
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