Key to Some Tribes, Genera and Species of Subfamily Meloinae (Coleoptera: Meloidae) in Egypt

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Insect classification and survey Dept., Plant Protection Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Center

2 Zoology Department, Faculty of Science (Girls), Al-Azhar University.

Abstract

Subfamily Meloinae, were represented by 5 tribes:  Cerocomini Leach, 1815, Epicautini Denier, 1935, Lyttini Solier, 1851, Mylabrini Laporte, 1840 and Meloini Gyllenhal, 1810. Tribe Mylabrini was covered by Elmetwaly et. al. (2015), and trbie Meloini was covered by El-Gharbawy (2006).  Accordingly, the present study was planned to revise and update the available information about tribe Cercomini, Epicautini and Lyttini. Key to the tribes and species was treated. During the present work, twenty two species in ten genera recorded in three tribes are covered in the present work.

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