Kateretidae

Kateretidae also known as short-winged flower beetles are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea.^[1][2][3] There are 10 extant and 4 extinct genera, and at least 40 described species.^[4][5][6] They are found worldwide except in New Zealand. Adults are anthophagous, feeding on flowers, while the larvae are spermatophagous inside the flower corolla.^[7]

Kateretes pusillus

Kateretidae Temporal range: Barremian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Kateretes pedicularius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Cucujoidea
Family:	Kateretidae Erichson in Agassiz, 1846
Synonyms
Brachypteridae Erichson, 1845

Genera

• Amartus LeConte, 1861 ^{i c g b}
• Anamartus Jelinek, 1976 ^g
• Anthonaeus Horn, 1879 ^{i c g b}
• Boreades Parson, 1943 ^{i c g}
• Brachyleptus Motschulsky, 1845 ^g
• Brachypterolus Grouvelle, 1913 ^{i c g b}
• Brachypterus Kugelann, 1794 ^{i c g b}
• Heterhelus DuVal, 1858 ^{i c g b}
• Kateretes Herbst, 1793 ^{i c g b}
• Neobrachypterus Jelínek, 1979 ^{i c g}
• †Eoceniretes Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2008 ^g
• †Lebanoretes Kirejtshuk and Azar 2008 Lebanese amber, Early Cretaceous (Barremian)

Data sources: i = ITIS,^[4] c = Catalogue of Life,^[5] g = GBIF,^[6] b = Bugguide.net^[1]

Fossil taxa Cretaretes, Electrumeretes, Furcalabratum, Pelretes, Polliniretes, Protokateretes and Scaporetes from the Cretaceous Kachin amber from Myanmar, originally described as kateretids, were subsequently argued to be sap beetles belonging to the subfamily Apophisandrinae^[8] or members of the separate family Apophisandridae.^[9] Pelretes has been described and claimed to have been an pollinator of angiosperms based on it being preserved in amber that also contained angiosperm pollen, much of it in coprolites,^[10] although this interpretation has been questioned.^[11]