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Subfamily Merophysiinae

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Coccinellid group)
Family Endomychidae (Handsome Fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Merophysiinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Holoparamecinae Seidlitz 1888
Explanation of Names
Merophysiinae Seidlitz 1872
Numbers
6 spp. in a single genus north of Mexico(1), ~110 spp. (of which 60 Holoparamecus and 26 Merophysia) in 12 genera worldwide(2)
Range
Holoparamecus (our only genus) is cosmopolitan, the remaining genera are distributed in warmer parts of the world, esp. around the Mediterranean(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.An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae)
Shockley et al. 2009. Zootaxa 1999: 1-113.
Contributed by v belov on 14 March, 2010 - 7:08am
Last updated 16 February, 2015 - 10:48am

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