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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 Epicauta (Epicauta subgenus Epicauta) » Epicauta bispinosa
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Epicauta bispinosa - male
Copyright © 2018 Steven Mlodinow

Epicauta bispinosa - Male
Mouth of Alejandro Canyon, JE Canyon Ranch, Las Animas County, Colorado, USA
June 9, 2018
Two straight spines on the foretibia can be clearly seen in one image. This narrows ID down to E bispinosa, E oregona, and E punctipennis. The maxillary palpi shape is c/w this species, not punctipennis. Vestiture not reduced as in oregona. (see Journal Kansas Entomological Society 48:429-452 and JP Schmidt (2008) Blister Beetles (Meloidae) of Colorado, #7 in series: Insects of Western North America, published by CSU.

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Contributed by Steven Mlodinow on 28 June, 2018 - 3:05pm
Last updated 2 January, 2024 - 3:29pm

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