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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) » Diversicornis Group (Epicauta Diversicornis Group) » Epicauta polingi

Species Epicauta polingi

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Brown Blister Beetle - Epicauta polingi UID BEETLE - Epicauta polingi Epicauta - Epicauta polingi - male Epicauta polingi Werner - Epicauta polingi - female Coleoptera - Epicauta polingi - male Epicauta polingi Werner - Epicauta polingi - female Epicauta polingi Please help us to identify this guy. - Epicauta polingi
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)
No Taxon (Diversicornis Group)
Species polingi (Epicauta polingi)
Explanation of Names
Epicauta polingi Werner, 1944
Mr. Poling was a w. TX entomologist who mostly worked on Lepidoptera
Size
13-15 mm (1)
Identification
male, female
Range
AZ to c. & s. TX / s. Mex. - Map (1)(2)
Season
late Mar. to Oct. (1)(BG & GBIF data)
Remarks
Type Locality: Davis Mtns, TX (1)
Print References
Werner, F.G. 1944(1943). Some North American species of Epicauta (Coleop., Meloidae). Psyche, 50(3-4): 65-73. (Full Text)
Works Cited
1.The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Texas
Dillon, Lawrence S. 1952. American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 48, No. 2:330-420.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by v belov on 11 April, 2009 - 2:09pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 21 July, 2023 - 1:37pm

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