Species Tricrania sanguinipennis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Blister beetle - Tricrania sanguinipennis

Tricrania sanguinipennis? - Tricrania sanguinipennis

Tricrania sanginipennis - Tricrania sanguinipennis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea (Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles)

Family Meloidae (Blister Beetles)

Subfamily Nemognathinae

Tribe Nemognathini

Genus Tricrania

Species sanguinipennis (Tricrania sanguinipennis)

Explanation of Names

Tricrania sanguinipennis Say 1824

Size

8.5-15 mm (1)

Identification

Body black with abundant hairs (setae), elytra red. Wings reduced--flightless (1). The only eastern Tricrania (2).

Range

e. NA & adj. Canada (TX-FL-ME-NE)(2)

Season

Feb-Apr (BG data)

Life Cycle

A parasitoid of colonial bees, such as Colletes. Adults (newly transformed, presumably) overwinter in brood cells of the host (Parker and Böving, 1924).

Print References

Parker, J.B. and A.G. Böving. 1924. The blister beetle Tricrania sanguinipennis—biology, descriptions of different stages, and systematic relationship. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 64(2513): 1-40. (BHL link)

Works Cited

1.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

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

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 23 January, 2007 - 1:24pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 29 February, 2020 - 11:17am

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