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Genus Melandrya

Dark melandryid - Melandrya striata ground beetle? - Melandrya striata beetle - Melandrya striata largish beetle - Melandrya striata Melandrya striata Beetle - Melandrya striata Carabidae - Chlaenius niger? - Vivid metallic ground beetle - Melandrya striata Melandrya striata - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Melandryidae (False Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Melandryinae
Tribe Melandryini
Genus Melandrya
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
in some sources [e.g. (1)], Emmesa is treated as a synonym or a valid subgenus
Explanation of Names
Melandrya Fabricius 1801
Numbers
A single species in our area(2), ~20-30+ spp. total, depending on how the [sub]genera are defined (in broader sense, up to 6 subgenera are recognized)(1)
Range
holarctic, most diverse in E Asia(1)(3); in NA, transcontinental in the north (NS-BC) south to NC in the east, to CA in the west(2)
Works Cited
1.BioLib.cz
2.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.
3.Coleoptera, Beetles; Morphology and Systematics vol. 2
Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence. 2010. De Gruyter.