''Mecomycter'' is a genus of
beetles
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
in the family
Mauroniscidae
Mauroniscidae is a family of cleroid beetles, formerly included in the family Melyridae. There are presently five or six genera and roughly 30 described species in Mauroniscidae, all of which are native to the Americas. Almost nothing is known a ...
, historically included in the family
Melyridae. The three known species of this genus are found in
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
from
Kansas west to
California.
Species
* ''
Mecomycter majeri
''Mecomycter'' is a genus of beetles in the family Mauroniscidae, historically included in the family Melyridae. The three known species of this genus are found in North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemispher ...
''
Howell, 1997[Howell, C. D. 1997. Three new species of North American Dasytinae, with two new generic keys. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 70: 11–17.]
* ''
Mecomycter omalinus
''Mecomycter'' is a genus of beetles in the family Mauroniscidae, historically included in the family Melyridae. The three known species of this genus are found in North America from Kansas west to California.
Species
* ''Mecomycter majeri
...
''
Horn, 1882
* ''
Mecomycter testaceus''
Majer, 1995
References
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Cleroidea
Cleroidea genera