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Species Lytta sayi

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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
Genus Lytta
No Taxon (Subgenus Pomphopoea)
Species sayi (Lytta sayi)
Explanation of Names
Lytta sayi LeConte, 1853
sayi = named after Thomas Say, a prominent American entomologist and naturalist of the early 19th century
Size
13-22 mm(1)
Identification
Range
ne. US (south to so.PA-c.IL-ne.WY) & adjacent Canada (NB-ON)(1)(2)(3)
Season
18.v—27.vii (vast majority of the records, May-Jun)(1)
Food
beetles feed largely on various flowers; larvae have been reared from cells of Agapostemon virescens(1)(4)
See Also
- Range: e. US
Lytta aenea Say
Det. John D. Pinto, 2015
Works Cited
1.Bionomics, systematics and phylogeny of Lytta, a genus of blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae).
Selander, R.B. 1960. Illinois Biological Monographs, No. 28, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
2.New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Stenotrachelidae, Oedemeridae, Meloidae, Myceteridae, Boridae, Pythidae...
Webster R.P., Sweeney J.D., Demerchant I. 2012. Zookeys 179: 279-307.
3.An Illustrated Inventory of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas
Edward G. Riley. 2013. Texas A&M University, Dept. Entomology, College Station.
4.Blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae) of Wisconsin: distribution and ecology
Marschalek D.A. 2013. University of Wisconsin - Madison. PhD dissertation. viii+349 pp.