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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Epicautini » Epicauta » subgenus Macrobasis (Epicauta subgenus Macrobasis) » Epicauta torsa

Species Epicauta torsa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited
Blister Beetle ID - Epicauta torsa Epicauta torsa (LeConte) - Epicauta torsa - male Epicauta torsa (LeConte) - Epicauta torsa - male Gray Blister Beetle - Epicauta torsa Ash Gray Blister beetle? - Epicauta torsa - female Epicauta torsa (LeConte) - Epicauta torsa - female Beetle - Epicauta torsa Epicauta torsa - male
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
Genus Epicauta
No Taxon (subgenus Macrobasis)
Species torsa (Epicauta torsa)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Epicauta torsa (LeConte)
Orig. Comb: Lytta torsa LeConte 1853
Size
15 mm(1)
Identification
form of antennae and the transverse pronotum will separate this sp. from other black, sparsely pale gray pubescent forms(1)
Range
se US (KS-TX-FL-NC, MA) - Map (1)(2)(3), particularly common in c. TX
Life Cycle
common in c. TX on Texas Mountain Laurel (Sophora secundiflora, Fabaceae) (4)
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Texas
Dillon, Lawrence S. 1952. American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 48, No. 2:330-420.
2. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida.
Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.iNaturalist
Contributed by v belov on 5 February, 2014 - 12:37pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 22 March, 2024 - 11:13am

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