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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 » Malachiina » Malachius » Scarlet Malachite Beetle (Malachius aeneus)

Species Malachius aeneus - Scarlet Malachite Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
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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 Cleroidea
Family Melyridae (Soft-winged Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Malachiinae
Tribe Malachiini
Subtribe Malachiina
Genus Malachius
Species aeneus (Scarlet Malachite Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Malachius aeneus (Linnaeus 1758)
aeneus 'bronze-colored'
Size
6‒8 mm(1)
Range
native to w.Palæarctic, adventive in NA (transcontinental in the north: BC‒NF south to OR‒CO‒SD‒IN‒*WV)(1)(*BG data)
Habitat
weedy fields and meadows; adults often on flowers of herbaceous plants
Remarks
earliest NA record: MA before 1852(1)
causes considerable damage to developing wheat throughout the ‘wheat belt’ from New England almost to the Pacific coast and in Prairie Provinces(1)
Works Cited
1.Synopsis of adventive species of Coleoptera (Insecta) recorded from Canada. Part 4: Scarabaeoidea... [through Cleroidea]
Klimaszewski J, Langor D, Smith A, Hoebeke E, Davies A, Pelletier G, Douglas HB, Webster RP, Bourdon C, Borowiec L, Scudder GGE. 2017. Pensoft Series Faunistica 116: 1‒215.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 4 May, 2006 - 9:32pm
Additional contributions by Bug Eric, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 4 February, 2025 - 7:44pm

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