Genus Pyrota

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Cream & Blk Beetle w Orange front end - Pyrota palpalis

Pyrota tenuicostatis (Dugès) - Pyrota tenuicostatis

Pyrota deceptiva (blister beetle) - Pyrota deceptiva

Pyrota fasciata Selander - Pyrota fasciata

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Meloidae (Blister Beetles)

Subfamily Meloinae

Genus Pyrota

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Our fauna revised in (1)(2)(3)(4)

Explanation of Names

Pyrota Dejean 1834

Numbers

27 spp. in our area, >40 total(5); 14 spp. of our fauna are assigned to species-groups; the rest are not (J.D. Pinto, pers. comm. to =v= 27.iii.2013)

Range

US (north to MA-IL-MT) to Argentina(5)

Food

Several Pyrota spp. have been reared on honey bee larvae and provisions(5)

"I don't believe there is a single larval host record for a Pyrota." (John Pinto, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2015)

Remarks

Our only representative of the New World tribe Pyrotini MacSwain 1956, that contains a total of 10 genera and ~100 spp.(5)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the genus Pyrota. I. The Mylabrina Group (Coleoptera: Meloidae) Selander R.B. 1982. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 55: 665-717.

2.	A revision of the genus Pyrota. II. The Postica Group (Coleoptera, Meloidae) Selander R.B. 1983. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 85: 69-85.

3.	A revision of the genus Pyrota. III. The Pacifica and Nobilis groups (Coleoptera, Meloidae) Selander R.B. 1982. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 108: 459-478.

4.	A revision of the genus Pyrota. IV. The Tenuicostatis group (Coleoptera, Meloidae). Selander, R.B. 1983. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 56(1): 1-19.

5.	The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis Pinto J.D., Bologna M.A. 1999. J. Nat. Hist. 33: 569‒620.

Contributed by Joel Kits on 24 March, 2005 - 12:25pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 7 June, 2023 - 4:06pm

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