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Species Meloe americanus - Buttercup Oil Beetle

Black insect with beady antennas - Meloe americanus - male

Meloe species? Or how I learnt not to trifle with them. - Meloe americanus - female

Buttercup Oil Beetle (Meloe americanus) - Meloe americanus

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

Genus Meloe (Oil Beetles)

No Taxon (subgenus Meloe)

Species americanus (Buttercup Oil Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Meloe americanus Leach 1815

Identification

It is difficult to distinguish females of Meloe americanus from M. impressus without examining pygidial structure (americanus females have a narrow apical flange). —J.D. Pinto, pers. comm. to =v=, 25.iii.2011

Range

ON‒GA to KS‒TX(1)

Works Cited

1.	Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.

Contributed by v belov on 5 June, 2009 - 10:29pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 19 December, 2023 - 3:20pm

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