Subfamily Dasytinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

Chapparal Clerid on Datura - Trichochrous insignis

Dasytinae from California (2) 10.07.18 - Trichochrous brevicornis

Melyridae beetle from Lucerne Valley, Mojave Desert - Trichochrous apicalis

Scelopristis grandiceps - Asydates grandiceps

Melyridae swept from blackbrush - Listrimorpha pallipes

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 Dasytinae

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

under revision

Explanation of Names

Dasytinae Laporte de Castelnau 1840

Numbers

~320 spp. in 35 genera (some poorly defined) in our area, >50 genera worldwide(1)

Range

worldwide; in our area, hardly represented in the east, and enormously diverse in the west, esp. in California(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.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 18 August, 2006 - 11:15pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 28 October, 2023 - 4:18pm

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