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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 segmenta

Species Epicauta segmenta

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Remarks · Works Cited
Black Blister Beetle - Epicauta segmenta white-ringed black beetle - side - Epicauta segmenta Blister Beetle - Epicauta segmenta Epicauta segmenta (Say) - Epicauta segmenta Coleoptera Meloidae with banded abdomen - Epicauta segmenta Blister Beetle - Epicauta segmenta What Species? - Epicauta segmenta Epicauta segmenta? - Epicauta segmenta
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 segmenta (Epicauta segmenta)
Explanation of Names
Epicauta segmenta (Say 1823)
Size
15-25 mm(1)
Range
SD-TX-AZ; nw Mexico(1)(2)
Season
Jun-Oct in TX(1)
Remarks
forms nonfeeding aggregations on plants, including species that are apparently never utilized as food(2)
Works Cited
1.The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Texas
Dillon, Lawrence S. 1952. American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 48, No. 2:330-420.
2.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 margarethe brummermann on 11 December, 2008 - 9:57pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 20 September, 2022 - 8:32pm

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