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Genus Axinotarsus

Shiny beetle on hydrangea - Axinotarsus pulicarius - female

Introduced melyrid - Axinotarsus pulicarius - male

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 Malachiina

Genus Axinotarsus

Explanation of Names

Axinotarsus Motschulsky 1854

Numbers

A single (adventive) species in our area, >30 spp. total (all but a few in the nominate subgenus)(1)

Range

widespread Palaearctic genus; in our area, BC (Vancouver area)(1)

Works Cited

1.	Axinotarsus pulicarius (F.) (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae), a soft-winged flower beetle new to North America Hoebeke E.R., Wheeler A.G. 2012. Zootaxa 3482: 82–87.

Contributed by v belov on 28 January, 2010 - 4:52pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason
Last updated 10 April, 2013 - 1:59pm

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