Melytra

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Promecheilidae
Genus: Melytra
Species: M. ovata
Name

Melytra Pascoe, 1869
Gender

feminine
Type species

Melytra ovata Pascoe, 1869, by monotypy

References
cited sources

Pascoe, F.P. 1869: Descriptions of new genera and species of Tenebrionidae from Australia and Tasmania. Annals and magazine of natural history (4), 3: 29–45, plate X. Internet Archive BHL

Additional references

Lawrence, J.F. 1994: The larva of Sirrhas variegatus, sp. nov., with notes on the Perimylopidae, Ulodidae (stat. nov.), Zopheridae and Chalcodryidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea). Invertebrate taxonomy, 8: 329–349. DOI: 10.1071/IT9940329
Lawrence, J.F.; Ślipiński, A.; Elgueta, M. 2010: 11.11. Promecheilidae Lacordaire 1859. Pp. 563-567 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

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