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Species Eupompha elegans

Eupompha elegans perpulchra - Eupompha elegans Eupompha elegans perpulchra - Eupompha elegans Elegant Blister Beetle? - Eupompha elegans OrangeShoulderedBeetle - Eupompha elegans Beetle - Eupompha elegans Eupompha elegans perpulchra - Eupompha elegans Eupompha elegans Unknown Beetle? - Eupompha elegans
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
Genus Eupompha
Species elegans (Eupompha elegans)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Eupompha elegans (LeConte)
Orig. Comb: Calospasta elegans LeConte 1851
Numbers
12 spp of Eupompha in the sw US and Mex. (1)
Size
7 - 13 mm
Identification
Black head & thorax; elytra may be variably marked with black and orange, some dark blue populations. (Evans & Hogue, description and photo (2))
Range
so. CA-AZ, NV - Map (3)(4)
Season
Feb-Aug in CA (BG data)
Food
Adult blister beetles, if they feed at all, are strictly plant feeders, consuming leaves and flowers. (5)
This species, though recorded feeding on eight plant families, mostly feed on members of the Sunflower family (Asteraceae). (2)
Print References
LeConte, J.L. 1852. Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera from California. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 5: 125–216.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
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.Field Guide to Beetles of California
Arthur V. Evans and James N. Hogue. 2006. University of California Press.
3.Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico ("The Leng Catalogue")
Charles W. Leng. 1920. John D. Sherman, Jr., Mount Vernon, NY. x + 470 pp.
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
5.Introduction to California Beetles (California Natural History Guides, No 78)
Arthur V. Evans, James N. Hogue. 2004. University of California Press.