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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 » Apalochrina » Collops

Genus Collops

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Melyridae - Soft-winged Flower Beetles - Collops tricolor

beetle ? turquoise, red, black & tan - Collops grandis

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 Apalochrina

Genus Collops

Explanation of Names

Collops Erichson 1840

Numbers

45 spp. in our area, 70 total (67 in NA + 3 in S. America). Several undescribed spp. in sw.US(1); 16 in CA(2)

Size

4-7 mm(3)

Identification

Antennae appear 10-segmented because antennomere 2 is very small and hidden; males basal antennomeres often modified:

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An old key to species in (4), additional spp. described/treated in Marshall (1951).

Range

Across the continent, Canada to Mexico(1)

Remarks

Not yet in guide:

Collops arizonensis Marshall 1951 ∙ AZ

Collops berthacarrae Evers 1995 ∙ CA

Collops bridgeri Tanner 1936 ∙ MO‒SD‒WY ∙ Holotype

Collops dimorphicus Russell 1966 ∙ WA

Collops discretus Fall 1912 ∙ CO ∙ Syntype

Collops femoratus Schaeffer 1912 ∙ AZ

Collops georgianus Fall 1910 ∙ GA ∙ Syntype

Collops knulli Marshall 1951 ∙ TX

Collops limbatus LeConte 1866 ∙ Great Plains? ∙ Syntype

Collops nevadensis Evers 1995 ∙ NV

Collops scutellatus Schaeffer 1912 ∙ TX

Collops similis Schaeffer 1912 ∙ UT

Collops subtropicus Fall 1912 ∙ FL ∙ Holotype

Collops versatilis Fall 1912 ∙ OR‒AZ ∙ Syntype

Print References

(5)

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.

2.	California Beetle Project

3.	Peterson Field Guides: Beetles Richard E. White. 1983. Houghton Mifflin Company.

4.	A Review of the North American Species of Collops (Col.) H. C. Fall. 1912. New York Entomological Society.

5.	The Malachiidae of north central Mexico (Coleoptera) Malcolm Yeaman Marshall. 1952. American Museum of Natural History.

Contributed by Cotinis on 29 September, 2004 - 7:45am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Hartmut Wisch, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, Aaron Schusteff, v belov, Harsi S. Parker, James Bailey
Last updated 28 October, 2023 - 6:28pm

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