Summary ²

The family Mycteridae is a small group of beetles with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name palm and flower beetles. The family Mycteridae is distributed worldwide. There are about 30 genera and 160 species. About 20 species are found in Australian, species of three genera are found in North America (Mycterus, Hemipeplus and Lacconotus)

SoCal Status ³

Known Species per The California Beetle Database .
Lacconotus pinicola
Mycterus canescens
Mycterus concolor
Mycterus quadricollis

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1. (c) Ferran Turmo Gort, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/fturmog/5357804196/
2. Adapted by BJ Stacey from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycteridae
3. (c) BJ Stacey, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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