Summary description from Wikipedia:

Melandryidae in languages:

Czech

lencovití

Danish

Svampespringere

English

False Darkling Beetles

Finnish

mustakeijut

German

Düsterkäfer

Japanese

ナガクチキムシ科

Korean

긴썩덩벌레과

Russian

Тенелюбы

Swedish

brunbaggar

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Parent Taxon

• Coleoptera

Sibling Taxa

• Aderidae
• Anthicidae
• Archeocrypticidae
• Boridae
• Chalcodryidae
• Ciidae
• Ischaliidae
• Melandryidae
• Meloidae
• Mordellidae
• Mycetophagidae
• Mycteridae
• Oedemeridae
• Promecheilidae
• Prostomidae
• Pterogeniidae
• Pyrochroidae
• Pythidae
• Rhizonium
• Ripiphoridae
• Salpingidae
• Scraptiidae
• Stenotrachelidae
• Synchroidae
• Tenebrionidae
• Tetratomidae
• Trachelostenidae
• Trictenotomidae
• Ulodidae
• Zopheridae

Child Taxa

• Eudircaea
• Melandryinae
• Mystaxus
• Osphyinae

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