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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Lytta » Subgenus Poreopasta (Lytta Subgenus Poreopasta) » Moerens Group (Lytta Moerens Group) » Cyanipennis Subgroup (Lytta Cyanipennis Subgroup) » Nuttall's Blister Beetle (Lytta nuttalli)
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Lytta nuttalli
Copyright © 2019 I Fox

Lytta nuttalli
Greeley County, Kansas, USA
July 20, 1990
Size: 24mm
I don't know much about the collection of this specimen except that it was collected by a kid that was in the entomology project in 4-H. this individual and a handful of other species were given to me by a friend who didn't mention the name of the collector.
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Contributed by I Fox on 14 February, 2019 - 8:16pm

Kansas out of official range
... of the whole subgenus.
However, we have a second suspect.
Both DO look like L. nutalli.
Should be verified if "wrong location" is a possibility.
… Boris Büche, 15 February, 2021 - 6:56am login or register to post comments

 
The KC specimen in interesting
I honestly don't know if the location on mine is correct, I never personally met the collector. Interestingly, there was also a Monochamus scutellatus (or at least part of one) in the same collection, so it's possible that the collector went on vacation in the Rocky Mountains and mislabeled some specimens. However, Western KS is a very diverse and (in my opinion) understudied area, so I think it's possible that L. nuttalli may occur there and go undetected.
… I Fox, 15 February, 2021 - 12:20pm login or register to post comments

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