-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

-Parasitic Flat Bark Beetles (Family Passandridae)

-Genus Taphroscelidia

-Round Passandrid (Taphroscelidia linearis)

The Round Passandrid (Taphroscelidia linearis) is a small, parasitic flat bark beetle native to the Southeastern United States, Central America, and the West Indies. It is known for its distinctive morphology and a life cycle that involves parasitism on other wood-boring insect larvae. The larvae are ectoparasites, feeding externally on the larvae or pupae of other wood-inhabiting beetles, such as bark beetles, weevils, and longhorn beetles.