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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Pyrota » Postica Group (Pyrota Postica Group) » Pyrota postica
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Blister beetle - Pyrota postica
Copyright © 2011 Dave Beaudette

Blister beetle - Pyrota postica
San Pedro House, east of Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
July 12, 2011
Eating new shoots of Velvet Mesquite
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Contributed by Dave Beaudette on 12 July, 2011 - 11:34pm
Last updated 1 October, 2015 - 12:04pm

Pyrota postica LeConte --det. J.D. Pinto
new one for us, Dave --thanks! good to open the page with this excellent image

Moved from Pyrota.
… v belov, 19 July, 2011 - 8:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you,
appreciate the effort.
… Dave Beaudette, 20 July, 2011 - 9:12am login or register to post comments

nice indeed; Maury's is a good call, Dr Pinto will tell
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 13 July, 2011 - 6:12am login or register to post comments

looks like Pyrota sp
possibly Pyrota plagiata
Wait for the beetle experts!
Very nice photo!
… Maury J. Heiman, 12 July, 2011 - 11:48pm login or register to post comments

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