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Subfamily Merophysiinae

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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