Dasytinae is a subfamily of soft-wing flower beetles,

beetle Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...

s 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

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(especially the genera '' Trichochrous'' and '' Listrus'') and

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References

External links

* * Melyridae Beetle subfamilies {{Melyridae-stub