BioImages (UK)
BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
COLEOPTERA
(beetles)
POLYPHAGA
(mainly terrestrial beetles)
Cucujiformia
(a group of beetles)
TENEBRIONOIDEA
(a superfamily of beetles)
MELANDRYIDAE
(false darkling beetles)
Melandrya caraboides
(a false darkling beetle)
Melandrya caraboides
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Melandrya caraboides (L., 1761) (a false darkling beetle)

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Cooter, J. & Barclay M.V.L. (eds), 2006 (Colour photograph) A Coleopterist's handbook

Melandrya caraboides may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 COLEOPTERA
(beetles)		 MELANDRYIDAE
(false darkling beetles)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 4 feeding and other relationships of Melandrya caraboides (a false darkling beetle)

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