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Subgenus Paralytta

Blister Beetles - Lytta magister - male - female Central Arizona Fire colored beetle? - Lytta magister Blister Beetle? - Lytta magister Big Bend Meloidae - Lytta cribrata Unknown_042215 - Lytta magister Lytta (Paralytta) mirifica Werner - Lytta mirifica Lytta vulnerata (cooperi?) - Lytta vulnerata Lytta magister
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 Paralytta
Explanation of Names
Paralytta Selander 1960
Numbers
the largest of the subgenera, with 20 spp. in our area and 36 spp. total, divided into five groups(1)
Range
NA: BC through the western half of the US to so. Mexico(1)
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.