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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)

Moerens Group

Classification · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
beetle - Lytta nuttalli Green Metallic Beetle - Lytta viridana Iridescent Green Beetles, Rte 14, North Tongue River, Sheridan County, Wyoming - Lytta Lytta nutalli - Lytta nuttalli Found colorful bug on step. What is it? - Lytta nuttalli Blister Beetle - Lytta nuttalli Lytta nutalli - Lytta nuttalli Lytta nutalli - Lytta nuttalli
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 Poreopasta)
No Taxon Moerens Group
Numbers
9 spp., all in our area(1)
Range
w. half of the US & adjacent Canada(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 1 April, 2013 - 4:19pm
Last updated 3 April, 2013 - 4:16pm

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