Species Pyrota lineata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Works Cited

orange and black striped meloid beetle - Pyrota lineata

Pyrota lineata texana Dillon - Pyrota lineata

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 Pyrota

Species lineata (Pyrota lineata)

Explanation of Names

Pyrota lineata (Olivier 1795)

Size

7-9 mm(1)

Range

GA-FL-e.TX(1)(2)

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.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 11 December, 2008 - 6:57pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 11 September, 2023 - 7:07pm

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