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Subfamily Dasytinae

Family: Melyridae?  Genus:Listrus?  On Rare Plant - Listrus Dasytinae - Leptovectura adspersa Eschatocrepis constrictus Coleoptera on a trailing 4 o'clock - Listrus senilis Unknown Beetle Listrini? - Listrus Trichochrous? Hoppingiana
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
under revision
Explanation of Names
Dasytinae Laporte de Castelnau 1840
Numbers
~320 spp. in 35 genera (some poorly defined) in our area, >50 genera worldwide(1)
Range
worldwide; in our area, hardly represented in the east, and enormously diverse in the west, esp. in California(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.