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Genus Attalus

ID me please? - Attalus sp-one-calif Attalus Or Other Soft-Wing? - Attalus Attalus Melyridae - Attalus Tanaops maybe? - Attalus sp-one-calif Attalus Attalus? - Attalus sp-one-calif Malachiini? - Attalus sp-one-ariz
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 Attalus
Explanation of Names
Attalus Erichson 1840
Numbers
54 spp. in our area, 125 in NA, hundreds worldwide(1)
Identification
The expanded second segment of the front tarsi is characteristic of all male Attalus. (A. Mayor's comment)
Range
widespread, most diverse in sw. US(1)
Remarks
Numerous undescribed spp. in the deserts of the sw. US and Mexico(1)
Internet References
Keys and descriptions from the 1951 work "Studies in Malichiidae, III" by M. Y. Marshall.
Type specimen images for 20 taxa from the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard)
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.