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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) » Maculata Group (Epicauta Maculata Group) » andersoni or pardalis (Epicauta andersoni or pardalis)
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Blister beetle - Epicauta
Copyright © 2013 john and jane balaban

Blister beetle - Epicauta
NM 12, north of Aragon, Catron County, New Mexico, USA
July 24, 2013
Size: ~12mm
We continued on US 60 through Magdalena to Datil, and then south on NM 12. We stopped at the continental divide to photograph some wildflowers and these guys too.

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Blister beetle - Epicauta Wider view of plant Wider view of plant
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 4 August, 2013 - 10:23pm
Last updated 13 August, 2013 - 7:13pm

Moved
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ID confirmed by J.D. Pinto: Epicauta pardalis or E. andersoni
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We posted a couple of images of the plant
that we were finding these beetles on.
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