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Species Lytta magister - Master Blister Beetle

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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 Paralytta)
No Taxon (Magister Group)
Species magister (Master Blister Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Lytta magister Horn 1870
magister = 'teacher, master'
Size
16.5-33.0 mm (generally >20 mm)(1)
Range
sw US (CA-AZ-UT-NV) (BG data)
Lower elevations in so. CA, so. AZ & nw. Sonora, north along the Colorado River and its tributaries to the Grand Canyon and sw. UT(1)
Season
Feb-Oct(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.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 24 March, 2005 - 12:12pm
Additional contributions by McClarinJ, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 7 June, 2023 - 4:04pm

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