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Species Meloe americanus - Buttercup Oil Beetle

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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 americanus (Buttercup Oil Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Meloe americanus Leach 1815
Identification
It is difficult to distinguish females of Meloe americanus from M. impressus without examining pygidial structure (americanus females have a narrow apical flange). —J.D. Pinto, pers. comm. to =v=, 25.iii.2011
Range
ON‒GA to KS‒TX(1)
Works Cited
1.Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina
Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.