Byrrhidae

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Byrrhidae
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Byrrhus pilula
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Byrrhidae

Latreille, 1804
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Byrrhidae, the pill beetles, is a family of beetles in the superfamily Byrrhoidea. These beetles are common in the forests of the Northern Hemisphere. They feed mainly on moss. Populations increase after wildfires.[1]

There are about 450 species in this family.[2]

Genera include:[3]

References

  1. Phillips, I. D., Cobb, T. P., & Spence, J. R. (2008). Salvage logging and edge effects on pill beetle abundance (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 324-27.
  2. Lawrence, J. F., Slipinski, A., Jaeger, O., & Pütz, A. (2013). The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3), 301-29.
  3. Byrrhidae. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

External links

  • Data related to Byrrhidae at Wikispecies
  • Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons

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