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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Epicautini » Epicauta » subgenus Macrobasis (Epicauta subgenus Macrobasis) » Epicauta atrivittata

Species Epicauta atrivittata

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Large Black & Yellow Beetle - Epicauta atrivittata

Giant Meloid - Epicauta atrivittata - male

Epicauta atrivittata (LeConte) - Epicauta atrivittata - male

Unk Beetle (Unknown) - Epicauta atrivittata - female

Bland and White Blister Beetle - Epicauta atrivittata - female

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

Tribe Epicautini

Genus Epicauta

No Taxon (subgenus Macrobasis)

Species atrivittata (Epicauta atrivittata)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Epicauta atrivittata (LeConte)

Orig. Comb: Lytta atrivittata LeConte 1854

Explanation of Names

atrivittata (L). 'black stripped' (1)

Size

26-32 mm (2)

Identification

Det. J. C. Abbott, 1993

Range

se AZ to w. TX / nc Mex - Map (3)(2)(GBIF)

Season

Apr-July (2)

Food

Solanum:

also known to attack mesquite - Propsopis (2):

See Also

E. purpurea (Horn)

- Range: AZ

Det. J. D. Pinto, 2011

Print References

LeConte J.L. 1854. Descriptions of new Coleoptera collected by Thos. H. Webb, M.D., in the years 1850-51 and 52, while secretary to the U.S. and Mexico Boundary Commission. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7: 220-225.

Pinto, J.D. 1991. The taxonomy of North American Epicauta (Coleoptera: Meloidae), with revision of the nominate subgenus and a survey of courtship behavior. University of California Publication Entomology Bulletin 110. x + 372 pp.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

BioLIB - Krejčík, Meloidae [http://www.meloidae.com]

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Texas Dillon, Lawrence S. 1952. American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 48, No. 2:330-420.

3.	Ecology, behavior, and adult anatomy of the Albida Group of the genus Epicauta (Coleoptera, Meloidae). Selander, R.B. and J.M. Mathieu. 1969. Illinois biological monographs Vol. 41. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 27 May, 2008 - 5:57pm
Additional contributions by Matthias Buck, Mike Quinn
Last updated 19 May, 2023 - 6:48pm

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