Dasytes
Encyclopedia
Dasytes is a genus
of beetles. It is sometimes placed in the Melyridae
family, subfamily Dasytinae, while others place it in family Dasytidae.
D. plumbeus is a very common beetle on flowers in Germany, where it feeds on pollen
. It is about 3 to 5 mm long.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of beetles. It is sometimes placed in the Melyridae
Melyridae
Melyridae are a family of beetles of the superfamily Cleroidea. The family Melyridae contains 520 species in 58 genera in North America. Most are elongate-oval, soft-bodied beetles 10 mm long or less. Many are brightly colored with brown or red and black...
family, subfamily Dasytinae, while others place it in family Dasytidae.
D. plumbeus is a very common beetle on flowers in Germany, where it feeds on pollen
Pollen
Pollen is a fine to coarse powder containing the microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce the male gametes . Pollen grains have a hard coat that protects the sperm cells during the process of their movement from the stamens to the pistil of flowering plants or from the male cone to the...
. It is about 3 to 5 mm long.
European species
- D. aeneiventris
- D. aequalis
- D. aeratus
- D. albosetosus
- D. alpigradus
- D. alticola
- D. baudii
- D. blascoi
- D. borealis
- D. bourgeoisi
- D. brenskei
- D. bulgaricus
- D. buphtalmus
- D. caeruleus
- D. calabrus
- D. canariensis
- D. coerulescens
- D. creticus
- D. croceipes
- D. dispar
- D. doderoi
- D. dolens
- D. erratus
- D. flavescens
- D. fuscipes
- D. fusculus
- D. gonocerus
- D. graeculus
- D. grenieri
- D. griseus
- D. hickeri
- D. incanus
- D. inexspectatus
- D. israelsoni
- D. iteratus
- D. korbi
- D. lanzarotensis
- D. laufferi
- D. lombardus
- D. longipennis
- D. lucanus
- D. marginatus
- D. metallicus
- D. microps
- D. modestus
- D. moniliatus
- D. monstrosipes
- D. montanus
- D. montivagus
- D. moreli
- D. murinus
- D. niger
- D. nigricornis
- D. nigritus
- D. nigroaeneus
- D. nigrocyaneus
- D. nigropilosus
- D. nigropunctatus
- D. obscurus
- D. occiduus
- D. oculatus
- D. pauperculus
- D. plumbeus
- D. productus
- D. provincialis
- D. roberti
- D. setosus
- D. staudingeri
- D. striatulus
- D. subacuminatus
- D. subaeneus
- D. subalpinus
- D. subfasciatus
- D. tardus
- D. terminalis
- D. thoracicus
- D. timidus
- D. torretassoi
- D. tristiculus
- D. troglavensis
- D. variolosus
- D. virens