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Species Meloe angusticollis - Short-Winged Blister Beetle

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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 Meloe (Oil Beetles)
No Taxon (subgenus Meloe)
Species angusticollis (Short-Winged Blister Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Meloe angusticollis Say 1824
angusticollis = 'narrow-necked'
Size
9-19 mm(1)
Range
transcontinental in so. Canada & northern half of the US(1)
Season
active primarily during spring and early summer(1), 25.iv‒28.vi in WI(2)
Works Cited
1.The bionomics of blister beetles of the genus Meloe and a classification of the New World species
Pinto J.D., Selander R.B. 1970. Ill. Biol. Monogr. 42: 1‒222.
2.Blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae) of Wisconsin: distribution and ecology
Marschalek D.A. 2013. University of Wisconsin - Madison. PhD dissertation. viii+349 pp.
Contributed by Chuck Entz on 20 November, 2007 - 11:17pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 19 December, 2023 - 3:21pm

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