Species Meloe impressus

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

Which Meloe species? - Meloe impressus - male - female

Blue, Ant head, beetle body, short wings - Meloe impressus

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 Meloe (Oil Beetles)

No Taxon (subgenus Meloe)

Species impressus (Meloe impressus)

Explanation of Names

Meloe impressus Kirby 1837

Size

6‒17 mm(1)

Range

northern transcontinental & montane(1)

Season

active primarily during summer and fall(1); Aug‒Oct in WI(2)

Works Cited

1.	The bionomics of blister beetles of the genus Meloe and a classification of the New World species Pinto J.D., Selander R.B. 1970. Ill. Biol. Monogr. 42: 1‒222.

2.	Blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae) of Wisconsin: distribution and ecology Marschalek D.A. 2013. University of Wisconsin - Madison. PhD dissertation. viii+349 pp.

Contributed by v belov on 5 June, 2009 - 9:45pm
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 19 December, 2023 - 12:06am

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