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Subfamily Meloinae

 
 
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Lytta · Oil Beetles · Pyrota · Eupomphini · Epicautini

Genus Lytta
need id - Lytta aenea Lytta fulvipennis Lytta funerea (Fall, 1901) - Lytta funerea - female Beetle seen while hiking to Murray Canyon near Palm Springs - Lytta magister Nuttall's Blister Beetle - Lytta nuttalli Genus Lytta - Lytta Lytta swept from Ceanothus perplexa - Lytta crotchii Beetle - Lytta polita

Genus Meloe - Oil Beetles
Some kind of ant? - Meloe Meloe impressus? - Meloe - female Meloe.. - Meloe Meloe - Meloe americanus - female Meloe campanicollis - male Beetle - Meloe campanicollis Buttercup Oil Beetle - Meloe americanus Meloe

Genus Pyrota
Cream & Blk Beetle w Orange front end - Pyrota palpalis Blister beetle - Pyrota postica Yellow-crescent Blister Beetle - Pyrota insulata Pyrota tenuicostatis Pyrota akhurstiana? - Pyrota akhurstiana Meloid, Pyrota sp - Pyrota palpalis blister beetle - Pyrota palpalis Pyrota deceptiva ? - Pyrota deceptiva

Tribe Eupomphini
Cleft-headed Blister Beetle - Eupompha fissiceps Eupompha elegans? - Eupompha elegans Eupompha elegans? - Eupompha elegans Unknown. - Megetra Cysteodemus wislizeni Yellow 'spider beetle' meloid - Cysteodemus armatus Eupompha elegans perpulchra - Eupompha elegans Pleuropasta reticulata

Tribe Epicautini
Margined Blister Beetle - Epicauta cinerea Blister beetle? 2 - Epicauta atrata Epicauta nigritarsis (LeConte) - Epicauta nigritarsis Epicauta - Epicauta arizonica Blister Beetle - Epicauta funebris Black blister beetle on goldenrod - Epicauta pensylvanica off-white Epicauta - Epicauta albida Epicauta ingrata? - Epicauta

 
 
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