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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Epicautini » Epicauta » subgenus Epicauta (Epicauta subgenus Epicauta) » Vittata Group (Epicauta Vittata Group) » Striped Blister Beetle (Epicauta vittata)
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ID help? - Epicauta vittata
Copyright © 2013 Amy Goodman

ID help? - Epicauta vittata
Seminole, Seminole County, Oklahoma, USA
June 26, 2013
Size: ~17mm
Found on an ant mound... I really think it's a beetle but it's abdomen is shriveled which makes me think I might be wrong... Not sure what this is, to be honest.

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ID help? - Epicauta vittata ID help? - Epicauta vittata
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Contributed by Amy Goodman on 26 June, 2013 - 4:03pm
Last updated 15 September, 2013 - 7:02pm

John Pinto says, "Almost certainly E. vittata...
"...but Seminole Co. approaches the known range of occidentalis. Populations of E. vittata that are trivittate have the middle vitta closer to the outer than the inner vitta. The 3 are usually equally separate in occidentalis - but there is variation."

Moved from Vittata Group.
… v belov, 15 September, 2013 - 7:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Epicauta.
… Blaine Mathison, 27 June, 2013 - 2:21pm login or register to post comments

I'd be glad to provide more directed photos
if someone has a view they need for ID. I'll also be glad to provide the specimen to an interested party.
… Amy Goodman, 27 June, 2013 - 8:00am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Amy Goodman, 26 June, 2013 - 9:15pm login or register to post comments

Striped blister beetle, maybe?
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… Amy Goodman, 26 June, 2013 - 4:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Blister beetle
Most likely genus Epicauta
… okeller, 26 June, 2013 - 6:26pm login or register to post comments

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