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Passandridae

Insect Families

Passandridae, the parasitic flat bark beetles, is a family of nine genera and 109 described species whose larvae are exclusively ectoparasitic on the immature stages of other beetles and of Hymenoptera. Adults are 3 to 35 millimeters long, heavily hardened, brown or black, with prominent mandibles and grooved backs; only the genus Passandra occurs in both the Old and New World, while the others are restricted to one hemisphere. The oldest known fossil, Mesopassandra, comes from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber roughly 100 million years old. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Living or Extinct
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1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
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2. Passandridae (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    Passandridae, the "parasitic flat bark beetles," are a family of beetles notable for being one of the very few beetle families with larvae that are, as far as known, exclusively ectoparasitic on the immature stages of other beetles and Hymenoptera.
  • Taxonomic rank (structure-wave classification, ruling 761/926)
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