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Soft-winged Flower Beetles
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Soft-winged Flower Beetles

Melyridae

Melyridae (common name: soft-wing flower beetles) are a family of beetles of the superfamily Cleroidea.

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first

Malachite Beetles

subfamilyMalachiinae

Dasytinae

subfamilyDasytinae

Melyrinae

subfamilyMelyrinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 82067.