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Checkered Blister Beetles

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 Pyrota

No Taxon Checkered Blister Beetles

Explanation of Names

The Mylabrina Group

Numbers

11 spp., all in our area(1)

Identification

extremely difficult to ID from photos

Range

US (mostly southwest) & Mexico(1)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the genus Pyrota. I. The Mylabrina Group (Coleoptera: Meloidae) Selander R.B. 1982. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 55: 665-717.

Contributed by v belov on 26 September, 2010 - 4:10pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 22 September, 2024 - 1:42pm

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