Meloinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Meloidae. There are at least 330 described species in Meloinae.[1][2]
| Meloinae | |
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| Lytta aenea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Meloidae |
| Subfamily: | Meloinae Gyllenhal, 1810 |
Genera
edit- Cordylospasta Horn, 1875
- Cysteodemus LeConte, 1851 (desert spider beetles)
- Epicauta Dejean, 1834
- Eupompha LeConte, 1858
- Linsleya MacSwain, 1951
- Lytta Fabricius, 1775
- Megetra LeConte, 1859
- Meloe Linnaeus, 1758 (oil beetles)
- Phodaga LeConte, 1858
- Pleuropasta Wellman, 1909
- Pyrota Dejean, 1834
- Spastonyx Selander, 1954
- Tegrodera LeConte, 1851 (iron cross blister beetles)
References
edit- ^ "Meloinae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Meloinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2, 779–1006.
- Pinto, J. D., and M. A. Bologna (1999). "The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis". Journal of Natural History, vol. 33, no. 4, 569–620.
- Pinto, John D., and Marco A. Bologna (2002). "Family 111. Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 522–529.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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