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Genus Tanaops

Tanaops coelestinus? - Tanaops coelestinus

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.

Contributed by v belov on 7 December, 2009 - 11:03pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Aaron Schusteff
Last updated 25 October, 2023 - 2:26pm

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