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Subtribe Attalina

ID for a beetle on Horkelia? - Attalus sp-one-calif Attalus trimaculatus ? - Attalus unknown beetle - Tanaops Beetle - Attalus frosti - female Attalus nigripes? - Attalus nigripes Melyrid - Attalus? - Tanaops Beetle on daisy - Attalus sp-one-calif Malachiinae swept from Philadelphus lewisii
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
Explanation of Names
Attalina Abeille de Perrin 1890
Numbers
Four (Attalus, Endeodes, Tanaops, Trophimus) or more genera in our area, 9 genera total(1)(2)
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.
2.BioLib.cz