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Subgenus Pomphopoea

Blister Beetle - Lytta aenea Beetle - Lytta aenea beetle - Lytta aenea Blister  Beetle - Lytta sayi Lytta aenea or something like it? - Lytta aenea Multiple Lytta on Driftwood - Lytta aenea Lytta aenea? - Lytta Blister Beetle - Lytta aenea
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
Genus Lytta
No Taxon Subgenus Pomphopoea
Explanation of Names
Pomphopoea LeConte 1862
Numbers
4 spp., all in our area(1)
Range
NA east of the Great Plains(1)
Works Cited
1.Bionomics, systematics and phylogeny of Lytta, a genus of blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae).
Selander, R.B. 1960. Illinois Biological Monographs, No. 28, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.