Torridincolidae
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Torridincolidae is a small family of beetle
s, in the suborder Myxophaga
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Beetle
Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...
s, in the suborder Myxophaga
Myxophaga
Myxophaga is the second smallest suborder of Coleoptera after Archostemata, consisting of approximately 65 species of small to minute beetles in four families...
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