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Genus Zonitis

Blister Beetle - Zonitis sayi Zonita vittigera propinqua - Zonitis vittigera beetle - Zonitis perforata Zonitis dunniana Nemognatha or Zonitis - Zonitis vittigera - Zonitis bilineata Nemognatha - Nemognatha lurida? - Zonitis perforata leaf beetl 2 - Zonitis bilineata
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 Nemognathinae
Tribe Nemognathini
Genus Zonitis
Explanation of Names
Zonitis Fabricius 1775
Numbers
15 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area, 36 in New World, >160 worldwide(1)
Identification
key to spp. in Enns (1956)(2)
Range
Cosmopolitan genus, as currently defined(1)
Food
hosts: bees (mostly Megachilidae, but also Halictidae, Anthophoridae, Colletidae, Andrenidae)(1)
See Also
telling apart Zonitis and Nemognatha from dorsal shots is often impossible
Works Cited
1.The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis
Pinto J.D., Bologna M.A. 1999. J. Nat. Hist. 33: 569‒620.
2. A revision of the genera Nemognatha, Zonitis, and Pseudozonitis (Coleoptera, Meloidae) in America north of Mexico, with....
Enns, W.R. 1956. University of Kansas Scientific Bulletin 37(17): 685-909.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 9 January, 2006 - 3:05pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 February, 2022 - 3:26pm

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