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Tribe Eupomphini

Blister Beetle - Megetra vittata - female

Eupompha elegans elegans - Eupompha elegans

Weird Bug- looks like from space! - Cysteodemus armatus

Elegant Blister Beetle? - Eupompha elegans

Eupompha edmundsi (Selander) - Eupompha edmundsi - female

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 Eupomphini

Explanation of Names

Eupomphini LeConte 1862

Numbers

28 spp. in 7 genera, all in our area(1)

Identification

see(2)

Range

the only tribe of the family confined to the Nearctic(1)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	A taxonomic review of Cysteodemus, Phodaga, and Pleuropasta with a new generic synonymy Pinto J.D. 1984. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 86: 127-143.

Contributed by v belov on 1 April, 2010 - 7:40pm
Last updated 9 February, 2015 - 7:03pm

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