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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Cleroidea) » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Dasytinae

Subfamily Dasytinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Small beetles in a flower of cactus Family unknown - Scuromanius Grey and Black Spotted Beetle - Listrus Bevy of Wee Beetles on Small Flowers #2 Dasytinae - Leptovectura adspersa Hairy Flower Beetle Soft-winged Flower Beetle Beetle from California poppy blossom
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Cleroidea (Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles)
Family Melyridae (Soft-winged Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Dasytinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
In great need of revision(1)
This subfamily "must certainly rank among the most poorly-known groups of Coleoptera in North America." (Mawdsley 1999)
Numbers
ca. 320 spp. in 35 genera in our area (several genera are poorly defined), over 50 genera worldwide(1)
Range
worldwide; in our area, hardly represented in the east, and enormously diverse in the west, esp. in California(1)
Print References
Mawdsley, J.R. 1999. Redescription and notes on the biology of Amecocerus senilis (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Meyridae: Dasytinae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 107(1): 68-72. JSTOR
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 18 August, 2006 - 11:15pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 14 November, 2011 - 9:29pm

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