Genus Tricrania

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

Blister Beetle - Tricrania sanguinipennis

Beetle with red elytra - Tricrania sanguinipennis

Black beetle w/ red elytra lurking near ground-nesting bees - Tricrania sanguinipennis

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 Nemognathinae

Tribe Nemognathini

Genus Tricrania

Explanation of Names

Tricrania LeConte 1860

Numbers

2 spp., both in our area(1)

Range

much of the US(2)

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the nearctic blister beetle genus Tricrania LeConte, 1860 (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Nemognathinae) Cline A.R., Huether J.P. 2011. Zootaxa 2832: 1–43.

2.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 23 January, 2007 - 1:24pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 29 February, 2020 - 11:16am

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