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Schreckensteiniidae

Schreckensteiniidae

1 species is known from Block Island. This family is represented by just three species in one genus in the continental US and Canada. Adults dramatically elevate their hindlegs at rest; this unusual trait is shared with the following taxa in the Nearctic: Stathmopodidae, many Heliozelidae, and the incertae sedis genera Cycloplasis and Cyphacma.

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