Melyridae
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Melyridae (common name: soft-winged flower beetles) are a family of beetles of the superfamily Cleroidea.
Species
malachite beetles
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyMelyridae
Мелириды (лат. Melyridae) — семейство насекомых отряда жесткокрылых.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8,283
- With media
- 460
- Family
- Melyridae
- Collections
- MHNCA, INECOL, INHS
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Melyridae
- taxon rank
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- topic's main category
- Category:Melyridae
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok
- Commons category
- Melyridae
- taxon common name
- 拟花萤科
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Description
- Evolutionary history
- Distribution
- Subfamilies
- Selected genera
- Notes
- External links
Melyridae (common name: soft-winged flower beetles) are a family of beetles of the superfamily Cleroidea.
==Description== Most are elongate-oval, soft-bodied beetles 10 mm long or less. Many are brightly patterned in black and brown, yellow, or red. Some melyrids (Malachiinae) have peculiar orange structures along the sides of the abdomen, which may be everted and saclike or withdrawn into the body and inconspicuous. Some melyrids have the two basal antennomeres greatly enlarged. Most adults and larvae are predaceous, but many are common on flowers. The most common North American species belong to the genus Collops (Malachiinae); C. quadrimaculatus is reddish, with two bluish black spots on each elytron.
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