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Tribe Epicautini

Grey Bug - Epicauta beetle - Epicauta pensylvanica Beetle sp.? - Epicauta vittata Yellow blister beetle - Epicauta Epicauta, maybe E. rehni or rileyi? - Epicauta rehni Red-necked Beetle on Wavy-Leaf Thistle - Epicauta atrata Beetles on yaupon - Epicauta tenuis - male - female Orange Epicauta on Solidago gigantea - Epicauta ferruginea
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 Epicautini
Explanation of Names
Epicautini Parker & Boving 1924
Numbers
ca. 180 spp. in 2 genera in our area(1), close to 300 spp. in the New World
Range
worldwide
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.
Contributed by v belov on 31 March, 2011 - 6:14pm
Last updated 9 February, 2015 - 7:06pm

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