Species Lytta magister - Master Blister Beetle

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

Orange Black flying bugs in the Sonoran desert in Phoenix AZ - 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

Latin, a teacher, master

Range

Mojave and Colorado Deserts

Season

Adults active in 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, v belov
Last updated 21 April, 2010 - 2:24am

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