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For the United States & Canada

Species Meloe campanicollis

Meloe? - Meloe campanicollis - male Oil Beetle - Meloe campanicollis - female campanicollis? - Meloe campanicollis meloid - Meloe campanicollis meloid - Meloe campanicollis unid. Meloe sp. - Meloe campanicollis - male - female Meloe campanicollis - male 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)
Range
e. US (NY‒GA to WI‒TX)(1)(2)
Season
active primarily during fall and winter(1); in WI, 25.viii‒23.xi (one specimen 13.v)(2)
Vast majority of collections are in Oct‒Nov but spring records are not unprecedented. 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.