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For the United States & Canada

subgenus Epicauta

Epicauta sp. - Epicauta cupraeola - male BB - Epicauta callosa Blister Beetle? - Epicauta strigosa Epicauta? - Epicauta puncticollis Black Blister Beetle? - Epicauta Epicauta vittata Epicauta andersoni? - Epicauta andersoni Clematis Blister Beetle - Epicauta cinerea
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]
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]
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] · iNaturalist
phoenix Werner 1944 [AZ]
proscripta Pinto 1980 [KS MS TN]
punctipennis Werner 1944 [BC‒AB to NM‒MO]
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.