Myxophaga

Myxophaga
Temporal range:
Satonius kurosawai (Torridincolidae)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Myxophaga
Crowson, 1955
Families

Hydroscaphidae
Lepiceridae
Sphaeriusidae
Torridincolidae
Triamyxidae

Myxophaga is the second-smallest suborder of the Coleoptera after Archostemata, consisting of roughly 65 species of small to minute beetles in four families. The members of this suborder are aquatic and semiaquatic, and feed on algae.


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