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
Author(s): 
Mike Hackston
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Keywords: 
false darkling beetles Coleoptera