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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles (Tenebrionoidea) » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Lytta » Subgenus Poreopasta (Lytta Subgenus Poreopasta) » Stygica Group (Lytta Stygica Group) » Lytta stygica
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Green Blister Beetle? - Lytta stygica
Copyright © 2005 Hartmut Wisch

Green Blister Beetle? - Lytta stygica
Jeffrey Pine Forest, ~8000ft, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, USA
October 16, 2002
Looks like the meloid beetle Lytta stygica on Erysimum capitatum (Western Wallflower).
Can anyone confirm this ID?

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 10 December, 2005 - 11:55pm
Last updated 12 December, 2005 - 1:19am

Lytta stygica
I think you're right. There is another beetle, Lytta chloris, which looks very much the same as Lytta stygica. But according to specimens I looked at, Lytta chloris occurs a bit further north, and more specifically, according to John Pinto, Lytta chloris doesn't occur south of the Tehachapi Mountains. I think your beetle then would be Lytta stygica.
… Joyce Gross, 11 December, 2005 - 11:07pm login or register to post comments

 
L. stygica
Thanks, Joyce, for your input. I briefly considered L. chloris, but then decided in favor of L. stygica. The beetle I photographed lacks the orange frontal spot in the center of the head, and, as you point out, occurs north of L.A. County.
Your comments reassured me that I was on the right track; you photographed the same species, I noticed. (I very much enjoyed the artistry in some of your images)
… Hartmut Wisch, 12 December, 2005 - 1:17am login or register to post comments

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