MELOIDAE Gyllenhal, 1810
(oil beetles)

MELOIDAE (oil beetles) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

MELOIDAE (oil beetles) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Lytta vesicatoria
Spanish Fly, Blister Beetle
Species 2 trophisms
Meloe
blister beetles, oil beetles
Genus 3 subtaxa 3 trophisms 7 references
Stenoria analis
an oil beetle
Species 2 trophisms 2 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyMELOIDAE (oil beetles)
SuperfamilyTENEBRIONOIDEA (narrow timber beetles)
Series Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for MELOIDAE (oil beetles)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Buck, F.D. 1954 Coleoptera: Lagriidae, Alleculidae, Tetratomidae, Melandryidae etc Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol V. Part 9, 30pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 8 Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 8, 388pp, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld

Larvae

van Emden, F.I. 1943 Larvae of British Beetles IV: Various small families EMM 79: 263 Ent. Mon. Mag. 78-9: 209-223.

MELOIDAE (oil beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to MELOIDAE (oil beetles):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 57 images of MELOIDAE (oil beetles)
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