Peskozhil [1] ( lat. Aegialiinae ) - subfamily of scarab beetles. They usually feed on plant foods on dry and sandy soils. [2]
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Description
Beetles of small size, reaching a length of 1.8-8.8 mm. Antennae 9-segment with 3-segment mace. The upper jaws are chitinized, their tops are weakly protruding beyond the anterior margin of the clypeus. [3]
Ecology
The larvae are saprophagous. [3]
Types
- Tribe: Aegialiini Latreille, 1807
- Genus: Aegialia Latreille, 1807
- Genus: Amerisaprus
- Genus: Argeremazus
- Genus: Caelius Lewis, 1895
- Genus: Micraegialia Brown, 1931
- Genus: Rhysothorax Bedel, 1911
- Genus: Saprus Blackburn, 1904
- Tribe: Eremazini Stebnicka, 1977
- Genus: Eremazus
- Species: Eremazus unistriatus Mulsant, 1851 - Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria [4]
- Genus: Eremazus
Links
- SCARABAEIDAE Aegialiinae Gallery
Notes
- β www.zin.ru Subfamily peskozhily (Scarabaeidae: Aegialiinae) - atlas of scarab beetles of Russia
- β Scarabaeidae
- β 1 2 Determinant of insects of the Far East of the USSR. T. III. Coleoptera, or beetles. Part 1 / under total. ed. P. A. Lera . - L .: Science , 1989. - p. 387. - 572 p. - 3 150 copies - ISBN 5-02-025623-4 .
- β The SCARABEIDAE Family. Subfamily AEGIALIINAE and APHODIINAE