Melandryidae

Ctenoplectron vittatum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tenebrionoidea
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Cladus: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Cladus: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Melandryidae
Subfamiliae: Melandryinae - Osphyinae

Genera incertae sedis: Doxozilora

Name

Melandryidae Leach, 1815

References

• Lawrence, J.F. 1991: Melandryidae (Tenebrionoidea) (=Serropalpidae). Pp. 505-508 in: Lawrence, J.F. (coordinator) Order Coleoptera, in: Stehr, F.W. (ed.) Immature insects, 2. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Iowa, USA.
• I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2008 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark
  ISBN 87-88757-84-6, p. 64
• Nikitsky, N.B.; Pollock, D.A. 2010: 11.6. Melandryidae Leach, 1815. Pp. 520-533 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755

links

• Melandryidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
• Atlas of false darkling beetles (Melandryidae) of Russia

Vernacular names

English: False darkling beetles
日本語: ナガクチキムシ科
русский: Тенелюбы
中文: 長朽木蟲科

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