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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Malachiinae » Malachiini » Attalina » Attalus

Genus Attalus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
red with black spots, Melyridae? - Attalus Soft-winged flower beetle - Attalus Attalus circumscriptus (Say) - Attalus circumscriptus Tiny beetle from power cut - Attalus terminalis Malachite beetle - Attalus sp-one-calif Melyrid (Attalus or Tanaops?) - Attalus sp-one-calif black beetle with red fringe along back edge of elytra - Attalus terminalis Attalus sp-one-ariz? - Attalus sp-one-ariz
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 Attalina
Genus Attalus
Explanation of Names
Attalus Erichson 1840
Numbers
54 spp. in our area, 125 in NA, hundreds worldwide(1)
Identification
The expanded second segment of the front tarsi is characteristic of all male Attalus. (A. Mayor's comment)
Range
widespread, most diverse in sw. US(1)
Remarks
Numerous undescribed spp. in the deserts of the sw. US and Mexico(1)
Internet References
Keys and descriptions from the 1951 work "Studies in Malichiidae, III" by M. Y. Marshall.
Type specimen images for 20 taxa from the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard)
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.
Contributed by tom murray on 4 May, 2006 - 7:27pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Aaron Schusteff, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 19 September, 2022 - 10:29am

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