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Dasytinae
Dasytes plumbeus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Melyridae
Subfamily:	Dasytinae Laporte, 1840
Tribes
Chaetomalachiini Danaceini Dasytini Gietellini Listrini
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".

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.

References

1. ^ 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.

External links

• [REDACTED] Data related to Dasytinae at Wikispecies
• [REDACTED] Media related to Dasytinae at Wikimedia Commons

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