Sap beetle

The sap beetles, also known as Nitidulidae, are a family of beetles.

Sap beetle
Temporal range:
Ipidia binotata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Cucujoidea
Family: Nitidulidae
Latreille, 1802

They are small (2–6 mm) ovoid, usually dull-coloured beetles, with knobbed antennae. Some have red or yellow spots or bands. They feed mainly on decaying vegetable matter, over-ripe fruit, and sap. Sap beetles coexist with fungi species and live in habitats of coniferous trees. They are found all across Europe and Siberia and are the biggest nutudulid species known in those areas.[1] There are a few pest species. An example of a pest species is the strawberry sap beetle that infest crops in Brazil between the months of August and February.[2]

The oldest unambiguous fossils of the family date to the Early Cretaceous, belonging to the genus Crepuraea from the Aptian aged Zaza Formation of Russia.[3]

Classification
Carpophilus dimidiatus

The family includes these genera:

References
  1. Audisio, P., Cline, A., Mancini, E., Trizzino, M., Clayhills, T., Cline, A., & Sabatelli, S. (2016).
  2. Moliterno, A., Martins, C., Szczerbowski, D., Zawadneak, M., & Zarbin, P. (2017). The Male Produced Aggregation Pheromone of a Strawberry Sap Beetle, Lobiopa insularis (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae). Journal Of Chemical Ecology, 43(6), 550-556. doi: 10.1007/s10886-017-0851-y
  3. KIREJTSHUK, ALEXANDER G.; NEL, ANDRE (2018-03-27). "Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) from the Paleocene of Menat (France)". Zootaxa. 4402 (1): 1–41. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4402.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 29690276.
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