MELOIDAE Gyllenhal, 1810
(oil beetles)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Meloe blister beetles, oil beetles					Genus	2 subtaxa	57 images	5 ident. refs
Stenoria analis an oil beetle					Species			1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	MELOIDAE (oil beetles)
Superfamily	TENEBRIONOIDEA (narrow timber beetles)
Series	Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

MELOIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Buck, F.D.	1954	Coleoptera: Lagriidae, Alleculidae, Tetratomidae, Melandryidae etc	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol V. Part 9, 30pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
	Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.)		Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 8	Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 8, 388pp, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld
Larvae
	van Emden, F.I.	1943	Larvae of British Beetles IV: Various small families	EMM 79: 263 Ent. Mon. Mag. 78-9: 209-223.

MELOIDAE (oil beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

TENEBRIONOIDEA
(narrow timber beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for MELOIDAE (oil beetles)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 7 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for MELOIDAE (oil beetles)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

MELOIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Larvae

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