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Subtribe Attalina

Beetle from Desert Mountains - Tanaops lobulatus Small black and orange beetle - Attalus Tanaops maybe? - Attalus sp-one-calif Attalus terminalis Attalus scincetus? - Attalus scincetus black beetle with red fringe along back edge of elytra - Attalus terminalis Attalus, swept from Lewis mock orange, common - Tanaops basalis Attalus scincetus  - Attalus scincetus
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