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Beetles of Zihuatanejo

ORDER COLEOPTERA

Camptodes Sap-feeding Beetles
Camptodes (Genus)

-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

-Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

-Insects (Class Insecta)

-Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

-Beetles (Order Coleoptera​​)

-​Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles (Suborder Polyphaga)

-​Cucujiform Beetles (Infraorder Cucujiformia)

-Superfamily Cucujoidea

-​Sap-feeding Beetles (Family Nitidulidae)

-Subfamily Cillaeinae

-Genus Camptodes


Camptodes is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. Sap-feeding beetles are rather small drab beetles distinguished by a very pronounced club on the tip of the antenna. The majority of sap beetles feed on fungi, but as the name suggests others are attracted to fresh tree wounds and sap flows where they feed on yeats and other fungi. Some species will also feed on pollen and act as pollinators.

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