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Dasytinae
Sign in to saveDasytinae is a subfamily of soft-wing flower beetles, beetles of the family Melyridae, historically sometimes treated as a separate family, "Dasytidae".
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 417
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Melyridae
- Collections
- SDNHM
- Recorded in
- United States
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dasytinae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.