''Mecomycter'' is a genus of
beetles
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
in the family
Mauroniscidae
Mauroniscidae is a family of cleroid beetles, formerly included in the family Melyridae. There are presently five or six genera and roughly 30 described species in Mauroniscidae, all of which are native to the Americas. Almost nothing is known a ...
, historically included in the family
Melyridae. The three known species of this genus are found in
North America
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from
Kansas
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west to
California
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.
Species
* ''
Mecomycter majeri''
Howell, 1997[Howell, C. D. 1997. Three new species of North American Dasytinae, with two new generic keys. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 70: 11–17.]
* ''
Mecomycter omalinus''
Horn, 1882
* ''
Mecomycter testaceus''
Majer, 1995
References
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Cleroidea
Cleroidea genera