A family of small, flattened beetles found worldwide, often in stored grain and wood; includes flat-grain beetles and related species.
Modern Latin family name, derived from 'Cucujus' (the genus), with the Latin family ending '-idae'; the origin of 'Cucujus' is uncertain but possibly indigenous or onomatopoetic.
Taxonomists love to organize life into family trees, and Cucujidae is one of many beetle families—there are so many beetle species that if you picked an insect at random, it would likely be a beetle!
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