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Genus Tanaops

small beetle - Tanaops Attalus sp. - Tanaops - male - female Attalus sp. - Tanaops - male - female Attalina - Tanaops coelestinus Malachiini? - Tanaops 9110 - Tanaops Tanaops foveiventris (Fall) - Tanaops foveiventris Attalus, swept from Lewis mock orange, common - Tanaops basalis
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 Malachiinae
Tribe Malachiini
Subtribe Attalina
Genus Tanaops
Explanation of Names
Tanaops LeConte 1859
Numbers
24 spp. in our area, incl. several undescribed(1)
Range
w NA (BC to CA-AZ to Mexico); 12 spp. endemic to CA(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.