Photo Spotlight: Amecocerus sp - Soft-winged Flower Beetle

This is the only representative of the Superfamily Cleroidea that I have. It's a Soft-winged Flower Beetle in the family Melyridae.

I know very little about this surprisingly abundant family save that they are usually very small and are almost always hard to identify. At the collection at PPDC in Sacramento, there are about two drawers of identified Melyrids and 8 unidentified drawers.

I do know that they're pollen and nectar feeders and can often be found on flower heads, thought they're small enough that they can be easily overlooked. This Amecocerus was less than 5mm long.

Taxonomy:
Superfamily Cleroidea<Family Melyridae<Genus Amecocerus