Meloinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Meloidae. There are at least 330 described species in Meloinae.
Genera Cordylospasta Horn, 1875 Cysteodemus LeConte, 1851 (desert spider beetles) Epicauta Dejean, 1834 Eupompha LeConte, 1858 Linsleya MacSwain, 1951 Lytta Fabricius, 1775 Megetra LeConte, 1859 Meloe Linnaeus, 1758 (oil beetles) Phodaga LeConte, 1858 Pleuropasta Wellman, 1909 Pyrota Dejean, 1834 Spastonyx Selander, 1954 Tegrodera LeConte, 1851 (iron cross blister beetles)
References
Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2, 779–1006. Pinto, J. D., and M. A. Bologna (1999). "The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis". Journal of Natural History, vol. 33, no. 4, 569–620. Pinto, John D., and Marco A. Bologna (2002). "Family 111. Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 522–529.
Further reading
Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.