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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) » Sericans Group (Epicauta Sericans Group) » Epicauta callosa

Species Epicauta callosa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Small Chocolate Brown BB - Epicauta callosa BB - Epicauta callosa BB - Epicauta callosa Epicauta callosa Meloidae - Epicauta callosa Blister beetle - Epicauta callosa ID on this beetle, please. Maybe Epicauta callosa ? - Epicauta callosa Epicauta - Epicauta callosa
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 (Sericans Group)
Species callosa (Epicauta callosa)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Epicauta callosa LeConte 1866
Explanation of Names
callus - a hard lump or swelling of the cuticle (1)
Size
7-13 mm (2)
Identification
distinguished at once by the two glabrous callosities on the pronotum (2)
Range
TX-ND-MT-CO / Mex. (2)(3)
Season
Apr-Oct (2)(BG data)
Print References
LeConte, J.L. 1866. New species of North American Coleoptera. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1 (concluded). Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 6: 87-168.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.The Torre-Bueno Glossary of Entomology
Stephen W. Nichols. 1989. The New York Entomological Society.
2.The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Texas
Dillon, Lawrence S. 1952. American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 48, No. 2:330-420.
3.Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico ("The Leng Catalogue")
Charles W. Leng. 1920. John D. Sherman, Jr., Mount Vernon, NY. x + 470 pp.
Contributed by v belov on 4 April, 2009 - 5:36pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn
Last updated 21 September, 2021 - 3:05pm

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