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Dasytinae

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Dasytinae
Dasytes plumbeus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Melyridae
Subfamily: Dasytinae
Laporte, 1840
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Synonyms

Dasytidae Laporte, 1840
Gietellidae Constantin & Menier, 1987

Dasytinae is a subfamily of soft-wing flower beetles, beetles of the family Melyridae, historically sometimes treated as a separate family, "Dasytidae".[1]

Description and distribution

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Dasytinae are typically small (<8 mm) and parallel-sided, with brownish to blackish integument (rarely metallic), and with or without a covering of short pubescence.

They are most common and diverse in xeric regions of North America (especially the genera Trichochrous and Listrus) and Central Asia.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Mayor, A.J. (2002). "Melyridae". In Ross H. Arnett; Michael Charles Thomas (eds.). American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Volume 2 of American Beetles. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
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