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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 Macrobasis (Epicauta subgenus Macrobasis) » Epicauta tenella

Species Epicauta tenella

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Print References · Internet References · 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
Tribe Epicautini
Genus Epicauta
No Taxon (subgenus Macrobasis)
Species tenella (Epicauta tenella)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Epicauta tenella (LeConte)
Orig. Comb: Lytta tenella LeConte 1858
Size
11 mm (1)
Identification
one of the few spp. in which the elytra are darker than the head and pronotum. (1)
Range
AZ to w. TX (1)
Season
Jun-Aug (1)(BG data)
Print References
LeConte J.L. 1858. Catalogue of Coleoptera of the regions adjacent to the boundary line between the United States and Mexico. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Series 2) 4: 9-42.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Texas
Dillon, Lawrence S. 1952. American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 48, No. 2:330-420.
Contributed by v belov on 20 March, 2010 - 10:10pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 18 October, 2015 - 7:54pm

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