Cedar Creek
Ecosystem Science Reserve
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Insects of Cedar Creek
Order COLEOPTERA
Family MELYRIDAE
(Softwinged Flower Beetles)
Most adults and larvae in this family (520 NA spp) are predaceous.
Attalus
terminalis is a common Soft-winged Flower Beetle found on weedy
Asteraceae.
It is encountered most frequently at wood-field edges.
Collops
vittatus and
Collops
4-maculatus are two infrequently collected blue-and-red marked
species.
Malachius aeneus collected near here.
An undetermined
Melyrid? also collected.