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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 Epicauta (Epicauta subgenus Epicauta) » Cupraeola Group (Epicauta Cupraeola Group) » Epicauta nigritarsis

Species Epicauta nigritarsis

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Epicauta nigritarsis Epicauta nigritarsis (LeConte) - Epicauta nigritarsis Black-toed Meloid - Epicauta nigritarsis Blister Beetle - Epicauta nigritarsis 820W07 - Epicauta nigritarsis Unknown Beetle - Epicauta nigritarsis Blister Beetle - Epicauta nigritarsis - male - 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 Epicauta)
No Taxon (Cupraeola Group)
Species nigritarsis (Epicauta nigritarsis)
Other Common Names
Red-legged Blister Beetle
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Epicauta nigritarsis (LeConte)
Orig. Comb: Lytta nigritarsis LeConte, 1853
Syn: Epicauta hesitata Dillon, 1952
Numbers
One of 173 species widely distributed in N. and C. Amer. (1)
Size
7 to 14 mm (2)
Identification
in part: light-colored elytral suture; distinct patch of dark setae on humeri; legs mostly orangish except black tarsi. (2)

Det. E. G. Riley, 2010

Key to species in Pinto (1991)(2)
Range
se.AZ-TX-s.OK / ne. Mex. - Map (2), nearly all records from TX & ne. Mex.
Habitat
Adults collected feeding on mesquite (Prosopis) (2)
Season
Mar-Oct (2)(BG data)
Remarks
Type Locality: Mexican Boundary
Print References
LeConte, J.L. 1853. Synopsis of the Meloides of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6: 328-350.
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. 372 pp.
Ward, C.R., C.W. O'Brien, L.B. O'Brien, D.E. Foster and E.W. Huddleston. 1977. Annotated checklist of New World insects associated with Prosopis (mesquite). U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1557. 115 pp.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.The taxonomy of North American Epicauta (Coleoptera: Meloidae) with a revision of the nominate subgenus...
Pinto J.D. 1991. Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 110: 372 pp.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 16 August, 2008 - 8:49am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd
Last updated 19 March, 2024 - 12:41pm

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