Species Lytta magister - Master Blister Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Season · Print References · Internet References

Beetle found on river mountain trail - Lytta magister

Black and red insects in Death Valley - Lytta magister

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea (Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles)

Family Meloidae (Blister Beetles)

Subfamily Meloinae

Genus Lytta

Species magister (Master Blister Beetle)

Explanation of Names

magist, =er, r (L). A teacher, master

Numbers

There are 69 species of Lytta widely distributed in the Nearctic, but primarily western U.S. and Mexico.

Range

Mojave and Colorado Deserts.

Season

Adult Activity: Spring

Print References

Selander, R.B. 1960. Bionomics, Systematics, and Phylogeny of Lytta, a Genus of Blister Beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae). Illinois Biological Monographs: Number 28. 295 pp.

Internet References

http://www.texasento.net/Lytta.htm - Mike Quinn

Contributed by Joel Kits on 24 March, 2005 - 12:12pm
Additional contributions by McClarinJ, Mike Quinn
Last updated 29 June, 2007 - 8:57am

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