Dasytinae

Dasytinae is a subfamily of soft-wing flower beetles, beetles of the family Melyridae, historically sometimes treated as a separate family, "Dasytidae".^[1]

Dasytinae
Dasytes plumbeus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Melyridae
Subfamily:	Dasytinae Laporte, 1840
Tribes
Chaetomalachiini Danaceini Dasytini Eparchiini Listrini Vecturini
Synonyms
Dasytidae Laporte, 1840

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.

They are most common and diverse in xeric regions of North America (especially the genera Trichochrous and Listrus) and Central Asia.^[1]