-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

-Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

-Insects (Class Insecta)

-Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

-Beetles (Order Coleoptera​​)

-​Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles (Suborder Polyphaga)

-​Cucujiform Beetles (Infraorder Cucujiformia)

-Bark-gnawing, Checkered, and Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Superfamily Cleroidea)

-Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Family Melyridae)

-Malachite Beetles (Subfamily Malachiinae)

-Genus Collops​

Collops, is a genus of soft-winged flower beetle. Collops beetles are predators of small lygus nymphs, aphids, mites, and lepidopteran eggs. Their larvae are soil-dwelling predators, making them valuable in agriculture.