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Subfamily Dasytinae

Dasytinae from California (2) 10.07.18 - Trichochrous brevicornis Listrus sp. ? - Listrus Checkered Beetle? - Listrus Coleoptera 22 - Trichochrous Beetle - Listrus senilis Beetle - Trichochrous aenescens Mojave J70 - Trichochrous pallescens Dasytinae? Swept from Desert Pine - Vectura longiceps
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.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 18 August, 2006 - 11:15pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 28 October, 2023 - 4:18pm

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