Subfamily Dasytinae Laporte 1840 (soft-winged flower beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Melyridae
Alternative spelling: Dasytidae
Parent taxon: Melyridae according to M. L. Gimmel and A. J. Mayor 2024
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Gimmel et al. 2019, Kolibáč and Perkovsky 2020, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Majer 1998, Mayor and Gimmel 2019 and Tihelka et al. 2021
Sister taxa: Malachiinae, Melyrinae, Troglocollops
Subtaxa: Danaceini Dasytini Eparchiini Eudasytites Listrini Protodasytes
Type: Dasytes
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of France (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 11 collections including 12 occurrences