-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

-​Pleasing Fungus Beetles (Family Erotylidae)

-Subfamily Languriinae

-Lizard Beetles (Tribe Languriini)

Adult lizard beetles are 2 to 10 mm (0.1 to 0.4 inch) long, are reddish in colour with dark wing covers , and feed on leaves and pollen. Larvae of lizard beetles develop within the stems of plants and adults feed on the tissues and pollen of the same or nearby plants.