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

subgenus Epicauta

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Works Cited

sunflower stinkbug - Epicauta ferruginea

Punctate Blister Beetle - Epicauta puncticollis

Blister Beetles - Epicauta - male - female

Epicauta pensylvanica Black Blister Beetle? - Epicauta pensylvanica

Epicauta pensylvanica? - Epicauta pensylvanica

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 Epicautini

Genus Epicauta

No Taxon subgenus Epicauta

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Revised in (1)

Numbers

Our species of Epicauta (Epicauta) not yet in the guide:

afoveata Werner 1949 [CA] · Holotype

atropos Pinto 1991 [MT‒MN to AZ‒KS]

candidata Champion 1892 [TX]

cicatrix Werner 1951 [TX]

corybantica Pinto 1991 [CA] (=alphonsii Fall nec Horn 1874)

crassitarsis Maydell 1935 [AZ]

emarginata Champion 1892 [AZ‒TX]

ennsi Werner 1957 [TX]

excavatifrons Maydell 1934 [FL‒MS] · iNaturalist

fallax Horn 1885 [CA] · Holotype

flobcina Pinto 1991 [e.US to NE‒AL]

impressifrons Van Dyke 1928 [CA] · iNaturalist

jeffersi Pinto 1980 [AZ‒OK]

jimenezi Dugès 1889 [AZ] · iNaturalist

kansana Werner 1944 [KS]

montara Ballmer 1980 [CA]

obesa (Chevrolat 1835) [e.NA west to ON‒IA‒NM] · (=ficta Werner: Holotype) · iNaturalist

phoenix Werner 1944 [AZ] · Holotype

proscripta Pinto 1980 [KS MS TN]

punctipennis Werner 1944 [BC‒AB to NM‒MO] · Holotype

senilis Werner 1949 [AZ‒TX]

singularis Champion 1892 [TX]

Works Cited

1.	The taxonomy of North American Epicauta (Coleoptera: Meloidae) with a revision of the nominate subgenus... Pinto J.D. 1991. Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 110: 372 pp.

Contributed by v belov on 2 January, 2010 - 11:34am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche
Last updated 22 August, 2024 - 2:51pm

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