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Tribe Melandryini

beetle - Prothalpia holmbergi False darkling beetle - Melandrya striata Beetle - Melandrya striata Emmesa, possibly testacea - Emmesa testacea - female Unknown Beetle - Melandrya striata Prothalpia holmbergi? - Prothalpia holmbergi Melandryid - Emmesa connectens - female Carabidae - Chlaenius niger? - Vivid metallic ground beetle - Melandrya striata
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
Numbers
10 spp. in 4 genera in our area(1), ~50 spp. in 4 genera total(2)(3)
Range
holarctic, by far most diverse in E Asia (1 sp. Oriental)(2); in NA, mostly northern, poorly represented in the US interior(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.
2.Coleoptera, Beetles; Morphology and Systematics vol. 2
Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence. 2010. De Gruyter.
3.BioLib.cz