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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Lytta » Subgenus Pomphopoea (Lytta Subgenus Pomphopoea) » Lytta aenea
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A garden surprise - beetle ID, please - Lytta aenea - female
Copyright © 2009 William Donald Newton

A garden surprise - beetle ID, please - Lytta aenea - Female
Chamblee, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA
April 18, 2009
Size: 3/4 inch
Observed this beauty crawling across freshly tilled and soil fortified with commercial top soil. I'm suspecting female because of the swollen abdomen.

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A garden surprise - beetle ID, please - Lytta aenea - female A garden surprise - beetl ID, please - Lytta aenea - female
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Contributed by William Donald Newton on 18 April, 2009 - 7:42pm

Lytta aenea
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… v belov, 18 April, 2009 - 7:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, sir!
Guess I won't have to add image of tail. It is indeed a simple and beautiful animal.
… William Donald Newton, 18 April, 2009 - 7:46pm login or register to post comments

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