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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) » Caviceps Group (Epicauta Caviceps Group) » Epicauta stuarti
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This fancy Meloidae, - Epicauta stuarti
Copyright © 2013 Mark S. Romero

This fancy Meloidae, - Epicauta stuarti
Clayton, Union County, New Mexico, USA
September 23, 2013
Size: ~11mm
is sporting a thick orange and black setae coat. It was almost over-looked among the many Cantharidae on a yellow flowering plant. ~40 north of Clayton on side of the road near the intersection of NM-406 and SR-456.

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This fancy Meloidae, - Epicauta stuarti This fancy Meloidae, - Epicauta stuarti
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Contributed by Mark S. Romero on 29 September, 2013 - 4:04pm
Last updated 4 October, 2013 - 6:11pm

this is clearly involved in m
this is clearly involved in mimicry with Pyrota....
… joeCicero, 29 August, 2022 - 4:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively based on an offline tip from Brady Richards
many thanks to both of you, colleagues, for this exciting addition.

Moved from Blister Beetles.
… v belov, 29 September, 2013 - 7:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you guys,
Brady, JD & V. I have a not so good live picture of this specimen which, I put back onto the flowers and it took off but, it landed on a grass stem then I took the photo then re-captured - luckily!
… Mark S. Romero, 29 September, 2013 - 9:44pm login or register to post comments

 
ID confirmed by J.D. Pinto
… v belov, 29 September, 2013 - 8:29pm login or register to post comments

simply stunning... ¿¿¿Epicauta???
looks like this bug doesn't really belong here )))))))))))
nothing comparable in BCI, either
… v belov, 29 September, 2013 - 7:15pm login or register to post comments

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