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Genus Meloe - Oil Beetles

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods
Class Insecta - Insects
Order Coleoptera - Beetles
Suborder Polyphaga - Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea - Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles
Family Meloidae - Blister Beetles
Genus Meloe - Oil Beetles

Species americanus - Meloe americanus
Species angusticollis - Short-Winged Blister Beetle
Species barbarus - Meloe barbarus
Species campanicollis - Meloe campanicollis
Species franciscanus - Meloe franciscanus
Species impressus - Meloe impressus
Species laevis - Meloe laevis
Species niger - Meloe niger
Species strigulosus - Meloe strigulosus
No Taxon suspect new species
No Taxon Temporary page: images seen and deemed unIDable by Dr. Pinto


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