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Family Melyridae - Soft-winged Flower Beetles


New melyrids from southeastern California.
By Blaisdell, F.E.
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Fourth Series, 13(17): 249-259., 1924
Blaisdell, F.E. 1924. New melyrids from southeastern California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Fourth Series, 13(17): 249-259.

New records of Melyridae (Coleoptera) from the Maritime Provinces of Canada
By Majka C.G.
Can. Entomol. 137: 325–327, 2005

Revision of the Mexican and Central American Malachiidae and Melyridae, with descriptions of new species
By George Charles Champion
Royal Entomological Society of London, 1914
pp 13-128 of Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (1914)

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Nomenclatorial corrections for Dasytidae and Malachiidae (Coleoptera)
By Adriean Mayor
Insecta Mundi, 17: 85-96, 2003
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Axinotarsus pulicarius (F.) (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae), a soft-winged flower beetle new to North America
By Hoebeke E.R., Wheeler A.G.
Zootaxa 3482: 82–87, 2012

A review of the genus Nodopus, with a description of a new species from southeastern North America (Coleoptera: Malachiidae)
By Mayor A., Wittmer W.
Col. Bull. 35: 473-476, 1981

A Review of the North American Species of Collops (Col.)
By H. C. Fall
New York Entomological Society, 1912
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 20(4), pp. 249-274, 1912

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Revision of the Soft-Winged Flower Beetles of the genus Asydates Casey, 1895 (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Dasytinae: Listrini)
By Mayor A.J., Gimmel M.L.
Col. Bull. 73: 1-71, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-73.mo17.1