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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Oil Beetles (Meloe) » subgenus Meloe (Meloe subgenus Meloe) » Black Meloe (Meloe niger)
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Meloidae - Blister Beetle - Meloe niger
Copyright © 2007 Feather Forestwalker, AKA Lisa Walker

Meloidae - Blister Beetle - Meloe niger
Mendocino County, California, USA
April 16, 2007
Size: about one and a half inch
It was eating California Buttercups and was the largest of several specimens found - fatter and longer - a female, perhaps?
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Contributed by Feather Forestwalker, AKA Lisa Walker on 16 April, 2007 - 11:30pm
Last updated 5 June, 2009 - 10:34pm

Meloe niger Kirby --det. J.D. Pinto
Moved from Oil Beetles.
… v belov, 5 June, 2009 - 10:34pm login or register to post comments

Meloidae: Meloe
Meloidae: Meloe
… Joe, Entomologist (in training), 16 April, 2007 - 11:42pm login or register to post comments

 
Meloidae: Meloe / Blister Beetle
Thank you. That does fit all the other shots here of the Blister Beetle - would this one be a female?
… Feather Forestwalker, AKA Lisa Walker, 17 April, 2007 - 12:14am login or register to post comments

 
Probably.
Most of the males in Meloe have highly-modified antennae resulting in a "kinked" or "knotty" appearance.
… Eric R. Eaton, 17 April, 2007 - 2:45pm login or register to post comments

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