Dasytinae
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Subfamily: | Dasytinae Laporte, 1840
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Dasytidae Laporte, 1840 |
Dasytinae is a subfamily of soft-wing flower beetles, beetles of the family Melyridae.
Description and distribution
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
- ^ 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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