Species Tegrodera aloga

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited

red beetle with black/yellow body - Tegrodera aloga

From Saguaro National Park West - Tegrodera aloga

Unknown Bug by Pool - Tegrodera aloga - male

Red, yellow, and black beetle - Tegrodera aloga

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

Tribe Eupomphini

Genus Tegrodera (Iron Cross Blister Beetle)

Species aloga (Tegrodera aloga)

Explanation of Names

Tegrodera aloga Skinner 1903

Identification

The most distinctive species(1)

Range

much of the Sonoran Desert in w. AZ, extreme se. CA & nw. Sonora(1)

Food

adults feed on spring blossoms of Nama hispidum and Eriastrum(2)

Works Cited

1.	A taxonomic study of the genus Tegrodera (Coleoptera: Meloidae) Pinto J.D. 1975. The Canadian Entomologist 107: 45-66.

2.	Living With Insects of the Southwest: How to Identify Helpful, Harmful and Venomous Insects Floyd G. Werner, Carl Olson. 1994. Perseus Publishing.

Contributed by Ken Schneider on 27 February, 2009 - 11:12pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 26 March, 2013 - 7:40am

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