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Genus Megetra

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Blister Beetle - Megetra punctata - female beetle - Megetra punctata beetle - Megetra punctata Large Black & Orange Insect - Megetra punctata Unknown in NM - Megetra Unknown Red/Black insect from the Mesa de Cuba Badlands, NM - Megetra Blister beetle - Megetra unknown beetle - Megetra

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 Megetra

Explanation of Names

Megetra LeConte 1859

Numbers

3 spp., all in our area(1)

Range

Chihuahuan Desert of the US (TX-NM-extreme se. AZ) & Mexico

Remarks

Print References

Selander R.B. (1965) A taxonomic revision of the genus Megetra (Coleoptera: Meloidae) with ecological and behavioral notes. The Canadian Entomologist 97: 561-580

Works Cited

1.The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis
Pinto J.D., Bologna M.A. 1999. J. Nat. Hist. 33: 569‒620.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 23 September, 2005 - 4:17pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Hartmut Wisch, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 26 March, 2013 - 7:51am

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