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LABOULBENIALES - Agentschap voor Natuur en Bos

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Adults prey on other flower-visiting insects, or may feed on poll<strong>en</strong>. The larvaeare carnivorous, or scav<strong>en</strong>ge for dead animal material.Table XXXII: Family Melyridae from cadavers in the Meerdaal Forest.Order ColeopteraSuborder PolyphagaInfraorder CucujiformiaSuperfamily CleroideaFamily Melyridae LeachSubfamily DasytinaeSpecies # specim<strong>en</strong>s Location DateCollectionrefer<strong>en</strong>ceDasytes Paykullcaeruleus (De Geer) 1 Cadaver 5 05/05/04 C5 5.V.04 2Subfamily MalachinaeSpecies # specim<strong>en</strong>s Location DateCollectionrefer<strong>en</strong>ceMalachius Fabriciusbipustulatus (Linnaeus) 1 Cadaver 5 2004 NICC23.2.14. FAMILY NITIDULIDAESap beetles are small (2 to 3 mm in l<strong>en</strong>gth) and colored black or brown. Somespecies have red spots on the elytra. Nitidulids belong to the Coleoptera thatare mostly found on flowers. However, the differ<strong>en</strong>t species live in quitediffer<strong>en</strong>t habitats and therefore maintain differ<strong>en</strong>t lifestyles (DE OUDE, 1999).Being such a diverg<strong>en</strong>t group, Nitidulidae exhibit one of the most diversefeeding strategies among Coleoptera. They feed on flowers, but also ondecaying vegetation, carrion, dung, fungi and insects.Table XXXIII: Family Nitidulidae from cadavers in the Meerdaal Forest.Order ColeopteraSuborder PolyphagaInfraorder CucujiformiaSuperfamily CucujoideaFamily Nitidulidae LatreilleSubfamily MeligethinaeSpecies # specim<strong>en</strong>s Location DateCollectionrefer<strong>en</strong>ceMeligethes Steph<strong>en</strong>s(cf.) a<strong>en</strong>eus (Fabricius) 1 Cadaver 6 20/04/04 C6 20.4.04Subfamily NitidulinaeOmosita Erichsoncarinulatus Förster 12Cadaver 5Cadaver 519/05/0419/05/04Species # specim<strong>en</strong>s Location Datecolon (Linnaeus) 2Cadaver 1Cadaver 809/09/0304/08/04C5 19.5.4BJ 1C5 19.5.4BJ 3Collectionrefer<strong>en</strong>ceC1 9.IX.03 BC8 4.8.4BJ CP a g e | 64

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