Key for the identification of British Melandryidae
This family contains 17 species on the British list, classified in ten genera and two subfamilies. Buck (1954) published a key to the British species and this is updated with some of the terminology simplified in the illustrated key below.
Subfamily MELANDRYINAE Subfamily OSPHYINAE
ORCHESIA CONOPALPUS
ANISOXYAABDERA OSPHYA
ABDERA
PHLOIOTRYA
XYLITA
HYPULUS
ZILORA
MELANDRYA
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Keywords:
false darkling beetles Coleoptera