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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Lytta » Subgenus Paralytta (Lytta Subgenus Paralytta) » Fulvipennis Group (Lytta Fulvipennis Group) » Pricklypoppy Blister Beetle (Lytta fulvipennis)
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Orange Beetle - Lytta fulvipennis
Copyright © 2014 Susan K Gibbons

Orange Beetle - Lytta fulvipennis
Thurber, Palo Pinto County, Texas, USA
May 16, 2014
eating a white thistle flower with poop

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Orange Beetle - Lytta fulvipennis Orange Beetle 2 - Lytta fulvipennis
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Contributed by Susan K Gibbons on 22 May, 2014 - 2:34pm
Last updated 26 May, 2014 - 2:01pm

Moved
Moved from Meloinae.
… v belov, 26 May, 2014 - 2:01pm login or register to post comments

Lytta fluvipennis?
… margarethe brummermann, 23 May, 2014 - 12:00pm login or register to post comments

 
ID confirmed by J.D. Pinto
… v belov, 26 May, 2014 - 2:01pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… margarethe brummermann, 23 May, 2014 - 11:59am login or register to post comments

any dorsal shots? looks like a nice meloid... Lytta?
… v belov, 22 May, 2014 - 2:54pm login or register to post comments

 
dorsal shots
I have gone thru my many shots of this Lytta and these were the best I could come up with. Thanks
… Susan K Gibbons, 23 May, 2014 - 12:29pm login or register to post comments

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