melyrid
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]melyrid (plural melyrids)
- (zoology) Any beetle in the family Melyridae, the soft-winged flower beetles.
- 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae[1]:
- A single Eleodes hispilabris (apparently on its last leg) was seen near the north end of the mesa, which I photographed and collected, and on the way back I encountered a small patch of Sphaeralcea coccinea (scarlet globemallow) in bloom, from the flowers of which I collected a few small melyrid-type beetles and a small halictid bee for Mike.