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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Pyrota » Mylabrina Group (Pyrota Mylabrina Group) » Pyrota palpalis
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Cream & Blk Beetle w Orange front end - Pyrota palpalis
Copyright © 2008 Robert L. Pearson

Cream & Blk Beetle w Orange front end - Pyrota palpalis
Skull Valley, (WSW of Prescott 10 miles), Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
August 16, 2007

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Contributed by Robert L. Pearson on 21 February, 2008 - 12:13pm
Last updated 27 February, 2008 - 8:48am

Moved
Moved from Pyrota.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 27 February, 2008 - 8:48am login or register to post comments

Meloidae (Blister Beetle)
don't recognize off hand and don't see it in the guide already - new is good. You have MANY spp. in AZ.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 21 February, 2008 - 12:29pm login or register to post comments

 
A quick google image search
revealed a very similar beetle found in SW Texas with a great name:
Charlie Brown Blister Beetle (Pyrota palpalis).

http://www.texasento.net/Pyrota.htm

Perhaps the same genus at least??

Edit: range given at that web site is: "Arizona to Texas, Mexico" - perhaps the same beetle?
… Ken Schneider, 21 February, 2008 - 2:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Good Job Ken
Sure looks right to me and the range also fits.
… Robert L. Pearson, 21 February, 2008 - 2:35pm login or register to post comments

 
see also
here including link to type. Yours looks dead on for palpalis even without the pronotal spots. The other reminds me more of this.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 21 February, 2008 - 2:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Phillip
I wouldn't have guessed a Blister Beetle
… Robert L. Pearson, 21 February, 2008 - 2:00pm login or register to post comments

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