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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Lytta » Subgenus Paralytta (Lytta Subgenus Paralytta) » Fulvipennis Group (Lytta Fulvipennis Group) » Lytta lecontei

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Blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae) of Wisconsin: distribution and ecology

By Marschalek D.A.
University of Wisconsin - Madison. PhD dissertation. viii+349 pp., 2013

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Another excellent study of Wisconsin beetle fauna; hope they publish it formally soon.

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Contributed by v belov on 26 March, 2013 - 10:10am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae)

The Old World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis

By Bologna M.A., Pinto J.D.
J. Nat. Hist. 36(17): 2013‒2102, 2002

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Contributed by v belov on 20 December, 2012 - 2:48pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae)

A revision of the genera Nemognatha, Zonitis, and Pseudozonitis (Coleoptera, Meloidae) in America north of Mexico, with....

By Enns, W.R.
University of Kansas Scientific Bulletin 37(17): 685-909, 1956

Full title: " A revision of the genera Nemognatha, Zonitis, and Pseudozonitis (Coleoptera, Meloidae) in America north of Mexico, with a proposed new genus."

Online at Biodiversitylibrary.org

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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 20 July, 2012 - 9:29pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae)

The blister beetles (Meloidae) of Colorado

By Schmidt, J.P. 2008.
C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Fort Collins, CO, 2008

Jason Patric Schmidt. 2008. Insects of Western North America. 7. The blister beetles (Meloidae) of Colorado. C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, CSU, Fort Collins, CO. iii + 296 pp.

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10 plates illustrating 149 specimens, maps. This work covers Colorado's unique blister beetle fauna. It is based on review through examination of literature, museum, and personal collections and fieldwork throught the state.

The study includes identification, ecological, and distributional information for the 15 genera and 81 species confirmed to occur in Colorado, representing nearly 26% of the known meloid fauna in the U.S.

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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 29 November, 2011 - 2:36pm

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The Meloidae of Arizona

By Werner, F. G., W. R. Enns and F. H. Parker
Agricultural Experiment Station, 1966

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Contributed by Blaine Mathison on 21 January, 2011 - 7:42pm

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The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis

By Pinto J.D., Bologna M.A.
J. Nat. Hist. 33: 569‒620, 1999

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Contributed by v belov on 10 October, 2010 - 2:24am

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Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina

By Janet C. Ciegler
Clemson University, 2014

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This study of beetles in the superfamily Tenebrionoidea continues efforts to document the biodiversity of South Carolina. Twenty tenebrionoid families (excluding Ciidae and Scraptiidae) are covered: Aderidae, Anthicidae, Archeocrypticidae, Boridae, Ischaliidae, Melandryidae, Meloidae, Mordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Oedemeridae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Stenotrachelidae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, and Zopheridae.

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Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 11 December, 2014 - 8:23pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea

New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Mordellidae and Ripiphoridae

By Webster R.P., Sweeney J.D., Demerchant I.
Zookeys 179: 243-256, 2012

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