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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Lytta » Subgenus Poreospasta (Lytta Subgenus Poreospasta) » Moerens Group (Lytta Moerens Group) » Cyanipennis Subgroup (Lytta Cyanipennis Subgroup) » Nuttall's Blister Beetle (Lytta nuttalli)

Species Lytta nuttalli - Nuttall's Blister Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
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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 Lytta
No Taxon (Subgenus Poreospasta)
No Taxon (Moerens Group)
No Taxon (Cyanipennis Subgroup)
Species nuttalli (Nuttall's Blister Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Lytta nuttalli Say 1824
Size
7-21 mm(1)
Identification
variable
Range
w. NA (AB-MB to MN-NM-e.CA); limited to higher elevations in the southern half of the range (the Sierra Nevada population appears to be disjunct from the main range)(1)
Season
Jun-Sep(1)
Food
Adults feed on legumes, other forbs
Remarks
first collected by Say along the Colorado Front Range where some of the local bushes "were loaded" with this sp. (2)
Works Cited
1.Bionomics, systematics and phylogeny of Lytta, a genus of blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae).
Selander, R.B. 1960. Illinois Biological Monographs, No. 28, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
2.The Natural History of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1819-1820).
Evans, H.E. 1997. Oxford University Press, xii + 268 pp.
Contributed by Chris Wirth on 18 October, 2005 - 10:33pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 17 September, 2016 - 6:00pm

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