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Collops (beetle)
''Collops'' is a genus of soft-winged flower beetles in the family Melyridae. There are more than 30 described species in ''Collops''. Species These 38 species belong to the genus ''Collops'': * ''Collops arizonensis'' Marshall * ''Collops balteatus'' (red cross beetle) * ''Collops bipunctatus'' (Say, 1823) (two-spotted melyrid) * ''Collops blandus'' * ''Collops cribrosus'' LeConte, 1852 * ''Collops crusoe'' * ''Collops discretus'' Fall, 1912 * ''Collops dux'' Fall, 1912 * ''Collops eximius'' * ''Collops flavicinctus'' * ''Collops grandis'' * ''Collops hirtellus'' LeConte, 1876 * ''Collops histrio'' * ''Collops insulatus'' * ''Collops knulli'' * ''Collops limbellus'' * ''Collops marginellus'' * ''Collops marginicollis'' * ''Collops necopinus'' * ''Collops nigriceps'' (black-headed melyrid) * ''Collops nigritus'' Schaeffer * ''Collops pallipes'' * ''Collops parvus'' Schaeffer * ''Collops punctatus'' * ''Collops punctulatus'' * ''Collops quadriguttatus'' * ''Collops quadrimaculat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft-winged Flower Beetle
Melyridae (common name: soft-winged flower beetles) are a family of beetles of the superfamily Cleroidea. Description Most are elongate-oval, soft-bodied beetles 10 mm long or less. Many are brightly patterned in black and brown, yellow, or red. 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(Malachiinae) have peculiar orange structures along the sides of the abdomen, which may be everted and saclike or withdrawn into the body and inconspicuous. Some melyrids have the two basal antennomeres greatly enlarged. Most adults and larvae are predaceous, but many are common on flowers. The most common North American species belong to the genus ''Collops'' (Malachiinae); ''C. quadrimaculatus'' is reddish, with two bluish black spots on each elytron. Four New Guinean species of ''Choresine'' (the more abundant '' C. pulchra'', the less abundant '' C. semiopaca'' and the two infrequent '' C. rugiceps'' and '' C. sp. A'', the latter as yet unnamed) have been found to contain batrachotoxins, which may account for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
