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Subfamily Oedemerinae

Asclera puncticollis - female Slender black beetle with red head and black face - Asclera excavata UNK Beetle - Oxycopis suturalis Oedemeridae - Oxycopis mimetica Oedemerid... - Xanthochroa testacea Xanthochroa testacea? Oedemeridae from Everglades ? - Oxycopis mcdonaldi Arizona Beetle for ID - Vasaces
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 Oedemeridae (False Blister Beetles)
Subfamily Oedemerinae
Numbers
by far the largest subfamily, with 76 spp. in 13 genera north of Mexico(1)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA(1)
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.