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Subfamily Melandryinae

melandryid - Orchesia Prothalpia holmbergi Orchesia ovata Melandryid - Dircaea liturata beetle - Microtonus sericans Enchodes sericea (?) - Enchodes sericea ? - Orchesia castanea Melandryinae? - Serropalpus substriatus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Melandryidae (False Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Melandryinae
Numbers
>90% of world's melandryids belong here(1); 8 tribes total, of which just one tiny tribe is not represented in NA(2)
Range
worldwide
Works Cited
1.BioLib.cz
2.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.