Genus Dasytellus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cleroidea

Family Melyridae (Soft-winged Flower Beetles)

Subfamily Dasytinae

Tribe Dasytini

Genus Dasytellus

Explanation of Names

Dasytellus Casey 1895

Numbers

8 spp. in our area(1)

Size

<2 mm(2)

Identification

pubescence sparse, pale, decumbent setae; eyes glabrous; pronotum with submarginal excavated lines, area lateral to the lines not more coarsely sculptured than disc; elytral epipleurae wide at base, obsolete near middle of elytra; tarsal claws with ungual appendages symmetrical, appendages as long as claws or nearly so.(2)

Range

w. NA(1)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	Nomenclatorial corrections for Dasytidae and Malachiidae (Coleoptera) Adriean Mayor. 2003. Insecta Mundi, 17: 85-96.

Contributed by v belov on 22 April, 2017 - 1:40pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 22 November, 2020 - 7:50pm

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