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Wikipedia / Dasytes

Dasytes is a genus of beetles in the family Melyridae, especially comon in the Palaearctic.

D. plumbea is one of the more common species, found on flowers, where it feeds on pollen. It is about 3 to 5mm long.

Nomenclature

Gimmel & Mayor in 2024 corrected a long-standing error in the grammatical gender of the genus name:

European species

References