Soft-Winged Flower Beetle

Melyridae Leach, 1815

Type genus: Melyris Fabricius, 1775

(after Hangay & Zborowski 2010): tarsal formula 5-5-5; subfamilies Malachiinae and Dasytinae have different body forms.

Malachiinae body: 3-10mm in length, elongate, flattened, often widest towards rear; apex of abdomen usually exposed and often brachelytrous; head prognathous, antennae not clubbed; pronotum flat and almost quadrate; sparsley clothed in erect setae, often brightly coloured; tarsi lobed.

Dasytinae body: 1-3.55mm in length, ovoid, elytra covering abdomen; head deflexed, pronotum strongly transverse; antennae swollen at apex; covered in dense recumbent pubescence; dull-coloured; tarsi not lobed with segment 4 reduced.