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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Oil Beetles (Meloe) » subgenus Meloe (Meloe subgenus Meloe) » Meloe campanicollis

Species Meloe campanicollis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Works Cited
Oil Beetle 3 - Meloe campanicollis - female beetle - Meloe campanicollis - female Oil Beetle - Meloe campanicollis Meloe campanicollis - female Meloe campanicollis - male Meloe campanicollis - Meloe campanicollis - male Wasp maybe? - Meloe campanicollis Meloe - Meloe campanicollis - male
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 campanicollis (Meloe campanicollis)
Explanation of Names
Meloe campanicollis Pinto & Selander 1970
Size
11‒17 mm(1)
Identification
Like in most American Meloe, apical antennomeres shorter than 2x their width, unlike in M. americanus/impressus, but not M. angusticollis. A greenish/olive tint is common and quite diagnostic, if there (can be black/blue).
Pronotum typically inflated at anteriour angles
Range
e.US (NY‒GA to WI‒TX)(1)(2)
Season
active primarily during fall/winter(1); in WI, 25.viii‒23.xi (one specimen 13.v)(2) • vast majority of collections Oct‒Nov but spring records are known. "I have seen a very few records from spring and even summer." —J.D. Pinto, pers. comm. to =v=, 6.xii.2011
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 - 9:56pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche
Last updated 15 February, 2025 - 6:40pm

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