Soft Winged Flower Beetle. 1 species in britain. By european workers explanation of names melyridae leach 1815 numbers 4 subfamilies.
Some melyrids malachiinae have peculiar orange structures along the sides of the abdomen which may be everted and saclike or withdrawn into the body and inconspicuous. The soft winged flower beetle are often found on flowers out in the open where they eat pollen insect eggs and flower loving insects that land within their grasp. This particular soft winged flower beetle has found a new home in the eastern part of north.
Longhorn beetle cerambycidae a long horned beetle family cerambycidae species long horned beetle cerambycidae moved to h.
Some melyrids have the two basal antennomeres greatly enlarged. North america accounts for 500 plus species of often strikingly colored slightly hairy beetles. Family melyridae soft winged flower beetles synonyms and other taxonomic changes includes malachiinae and dasytinae often treated as separate families esp. Other articles where soft winged flower beetle is discussed.
