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Genus Condylops

blue beetle from Ceratiola ericoides FL rosemary - Condylops obrieni - female blue beetle from Ceratiola ericoides FL rosemary - Condylops obrieni - female blue beetle from Ceratiola ericoides FL rosemary - Condylops obrieni - female blue beetle from Ceratiola ericoides FL rosemary - Condylops obrieni - female
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 Ilopina
Genus Condylops
Explanation of Names
Condylops Redtenbacher 1850
Numbers
A single species in our area (in the monotypic subgenus Neocondylops Wittmer 1987), ~80 spp. worldwide(1)
Range
Old World, most diverse in so. Africa; one sp. in the New World, precinctive to FL and not closely related to the Old World congeners(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.