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Genus Tricrania

Tricrania stansburyi Haldeman - Tricrania stansburyi Tricrania sanguinipennis Dead red beetle - Tricrania sanguinipennis beetle 4119 - Tricrania sanguinipennis Tricrania? - Tricrania stansburyi Black beetle w/ red elytra lurking near ground-nesting bees - Tricrania sanguinipennis Red Canyon on fence - Tricrania stansburyi Tricrania sanginipennis - 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.