Fire-coloured beetle

Fire-coloured beetle

Taxobox
name = Fire coloured beetles



image_size = 200px
image_caption = "Pyrochroa coccinea" female
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Coleoptera
subordo = Polyphaga
superfamilia = Tenebrionoidea
familia = Pyrochroidae
subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies
subdivision =
Agnathinae
Pedilinae
Pilipalpinae
Pyrochroinae
Tydessinae

Fire-coloured beetles are the beetles of the Pyrochroidae family, which includes the red Cardinal beetles. This family contains some 150 species. Many species in the subfamily Pyrochroinae have comb- or antler-like antennae. This family also now includes most former members of the defunct family Pedilidae.


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