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Species Nemognatha piazata

Beetle - Nemognatha piazata Nemognathini - Nemognatha piazata Soldier Beetle (family Cantharidae-I think) on Feld Thistle, Cirsium discolor, Savannah, Ga - Nemognatha piazata - female Nemognatha - Nemognatha piazata - female Lytta Blister Beetle - ID? - Nemognatha piazata Unknown Flower (?) Beetle on Thistle - Nemognatha piazata What kind of beetle is this? view 2 - Nemognatha piazata Nemognatha piazata
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 Nemognathinae
Tribe Nemognathini
Genus Nemognatha
No Taxon (subgenus Nemognatha)
Species piazata (Nemognatha piazata)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Nemognatha piazata (Fabricius)
Orig. Comb: Zonitis piazata Fabricius 1798
Numbers
3 sspp.(1)
Size
7-15 mm(1)
Range
N. p. piazata se. US (ss.WV-FL-MS)
N. p. palliata sw.MN-MO
N. p. bicolor MB-AB to TX-NM (1)
Season
Mar-Sep(1)
Works Cited
1. A revision of the genera Nemognatha, Zonitis, and Pseudozonitis (Coleoptera, Meloidae) in America north of Mexico, with....
Enns, W.R. 1956. University of Kansas Scientific Bulletin 37(17): 685-909.