Malachiinae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Cleroidea

Familia: Melyridae
Subfamilia: Malachiinae
Tribus (5 + 1†): Amalthocini – Carphurini – Lemphini – Malachiini – Pagurodactylini – †Palpattalini
Overview of genera

Condylops – Dicranolaius – Dromanthomorphus – Intybia – Kuatunia – Platyebaeus – Protapalochrus – ...

Name

Malachiinae Fleming, 1821
Synonymy

Malachiusidae Fleming, 1821: 50
Malachiidae

Alternative classifications
As family (after Bocakova, Constantin & Bocak (2012))

Bocakova, M., Constantin, R. & Bocak, L. 2012 (online 2011). Molecular phylogenetics of the melyrid lineage (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Cladistics 28(2): 117–129. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00368.x Open access. Reference page.
Gimmel, M.L., Bocakova, M., Gunter, N.L. & Leschen, R.A.B. 2019. Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Systematic Entomology 44(3): 527–558. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12338 Paywall. Reference page. [Table 1 on page 522 (6 in Early View version), under "Old classification scheme"]
Family Malachiidae
Subfamily Amalthocinae
Subfamily Attalomiminae (synonym of Lemphinae/Lemphini in Gimmel et al. (2019))
Subfamily Carphurinae
Subfamily Lemphinae
Subfamily Malachiinae
Tribe Apalochrini
Tribe Attalini
Tribe Colotini
Tribe Ebaeini
Tribe Illopini
Tribe Malachiini
Tribe Troglopini
Subfamily Pagurodactylinae

References
Primary references

Fleming, J. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Volume Fifth [Part 1]. 584 pp. A. Constable and Company, Edinburgh, 41–56, pl. 85. Archive Reference page.

Additional references

Bocakova, M., Constantin, R. & Bocak, L. 2012 (online 2011). Molecular phylogenetics of the melyrid lineage (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Cladistics 28(2): 117–129. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00368.x Open access. Reference page.
Gimmel, M.L., Bocakova, M., Gunter, N.L. & Leschen, R.A.B. 2019. Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Systematic Entomology 44(3): 527–558. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12338 Paywall. Reference page.
I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2007 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4: Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-67-6, p. 415 (as Malachiidae)
Mirutenko, V. & Ghahari, H. 2016. An annotated checklist of Malachiidae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea) from Iran. Zootaxa 4162(2): 331–346. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.2.8. Reference page.
Tshernyshev, S.E. 2015: A new species of soft-winged flower beetles of the genus Platyebaeus Wittmer, 1995 (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Malachiidae) from Philippines. Zootaxa 3941(2): 289–293. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.2.9. Reference page.
Tshernyshev, S.E. 2016. A review of species of the genera Protapalochrus Erichson and Paratinoides L. Medvedev (Coleoptera, Malachiidae). Zootaxa 4139(3): 369–390. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.3.3. Reference page.
Tshernyshev, S.E. 2016. The genus Dromanthomorphus Pic, 1921 (Coleoptera, Cleroidea: Malachiidae) in South-East Asia. Zootaxa 4139(4): 551–565. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.4.7. Reference page.
Tshernyshev, S.E. 2016b. Pectapalochrus gen. n., a new genus of soft-winged flower beetles of the tribe apalochrini (Coleoptera, Malachiidae). Entomological Review 96(3): 348-354. Reference page.
Tshernyshev, S.E. 2016. Taxonomic revision of Intybia Pascoe, 1886 species (Coleoptera, Malachiidae) of Thailand and Philippines. Zootaxa 4147(2): 101–123. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.2.1. Reference page.

Links

Australian Faunal Directory
Atlas of the family Malachiidae of Russia

Vernacular names
čeština: Bradavičníkovití
Deutsch: Zipfelkäfer
English: Soft-winged flower beetle
français: Malachie
日本語: ジョウカイモドキ亜科
lietuvių: Pūsliavabaliai
norsk: Blærebiller
polski: Bęblikowate
русский: Малашки

Malachiinae is a subfamily of soft-wing flower beetles, beetles of the family Melyridae and having a global distribution.

Description

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 most common North American species belongs to the genus Collops (C. quadrimaculatus) and is reddish, with two bluish black spots on each elytron.[1]
Selected genera

Ablechrus
Afrocarphurus
Anthocomus
Anthomalachius
Apalochrus
Apteromalachius
Attalus
Attalusinus
Attalomimus
Axinotarsus
Balanophorus
Brachemys
Brachyhedibius
Carphuroides
Carphuromorphus
Carphurus
Cephalogonia
Cephaloncus
Cerapheles
Ceratistes
Chaetocoelus
Charopus
Choresine
Clanoptilus
Collops
Colotes
Condylops
Cordylepherus
Cyrtosus
Dromanthomorphus
Ebaeus
Endeodes
Falsolaius
Fortunatius
Haplomalachius
Helcogaster
Hypebaeus
Ifnidius
Laius
Malachiomimus
Malachius
Metachoresine
Micrinus
Microcarphurus
Microlipus
Neocarphurus
Nepachys
Nodopus
Pelochrus
Planasiella
Protapalochrus
Psiloderes
Sphinginus
Tanaops
Telocarphurus
Temnopsophus
Transvestitus
Troglops
Trophimus

References

Triplehorn, C. and Johnson, N.: "Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects, 7th Ed.", page 429. Brooks/Cole, 2005.