The pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae CG Thomson, 1859 (Nitidulidae), is distributed
throughout the Holarctic, Afrotropical, Oriental, and Australasian Regions. Previously, the
subfamily included fifteen genera and approximately seven hundred species, most of which
were attributed to the widespread and paraphyletic genus Meligethes Stephens, 1830, and
to a lesser extent the primarily Afrotropical genus Pria Stephens, 1830. Herein, twenty-two
additional genera are described as new from Europe, Africa, North America and

Recent molecular and morphological data derived from members of the pollen-beetle
subfamily Meligethinae suggest the need to separate the genus Sagittogethes Audisio &
Cline, 2009, including species mostly distributed in Western Palaearctic areas, into two
distinct (although related) genera, Sagittogethes and Teucriogethes gen. n. This new genus,
comprising the Western European Meligethes obscurus Erichson, 1845 as its type species,
includes less than ten species distributed between the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa …