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Subgenus Pomphopoea

Blister beetle turning in circles - Lytta aenea

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 Pomphopoea

Explanation of Names

Pomphopoea LeConte 1862

Numbers

4 spp., all in our area(1)

Range

NA east of the Great Plains(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.

Contributed by v belov on 25 March, 2013 - 6:15pm
Last updated 22 June, 2017 - 2:21pm

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