Species Tegrodera latecincta - Iron Cross Blister Beetle

University of Florida Extension document describing Blister Beetles found in that state. An annotated checklist, with some linked images, life history, lists of hostplants, and references.

Another version is at: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_IN323

Photographical catalog of tropical beetles,
including topics like evolution, morphology, physiology and biogeography of tropical beetles.
I am also working on a catalog of the Holotypes of the university of Hamburg.
If you have suggestions, please let me know.
Robert Perger

This is the site of an organization called Ohio Coleopterists. Of particular interest are a number of back issues of newsletters, with articles on such topics as rearing beetles and unusual collecting methods.

As of my October 2005 visit, the site appears to be no longer updated, but I found the newsletter backfile most useful and interesting. One article described finding an unused baseball diamond populated by wasps who caught and paralyzed Buprestid beetles. The author described wasps flying from all directions with dozens and dozens of buprestids of a number of different species! Lo

Includes bibliography. This is one of a series of checklists for Oklahoma invertebrates. They are rather hard to find on the web site, so I am going to post links for each order. (There seemes not to be an overall index page.)