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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Lytta » Subgenus Poreopasta (Lytta Subgenus Poreopasta) » Moerens Group (Lytta Moerens Group) » Cyanipennis Subgroup (Lytta Cyanipennis Subgroup) » Nuttall's Blister Beetle (Lytta nuttalli)
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Blister Beetle - Lytta nuttalli
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Blister Beetle - Lytta nuttalli
Sonora Pass, California, USA
July 2, 2006
There were a good number of these beetles on the flowers near the summit.

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Blister Beetle - Lytta nuttalli mating Blister Beetles - Lytta nuttalli - male - female
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Contributed by tom murray on 17 July, 2006 - 10:20pm
Last updated 13 February, 2021 - 2:36pm

Moved
Moved from Lytta rathvoni.

Keyed with Selander (1960); male features of L. nutalli verified:
a) antennae bead-like, middle segments a bit thickened;
b) last ventral segment deeply bifurcate, ending in two points (seen).

Lytta rathvoni males have very slender antennae, and last ventral emarginate, but not deeply so.
… Boris Büche, 13 February, 2021 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

Looks like a good match
Moved from Lytta.
… tom murray, 2 October, 2007 - 8:16am login or register to post comments

found among MCZ types
this multicoloured Californian species
… Boris Büche, 2 October, 2007 - 2:56am login or register to post comments

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