Red-eared Blister Beetle (Lytta auriculata)

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Lytta auriculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Meloidae
Genus: Lytta
Species:
L. auriculata
Binomial name
Lytta auriculata
Horn, 1870

Lytta auriculata, the red-eared blister beetle, is a species of blister beetles in the family Meloidae.[1][2] It is found in Central America and North America.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Lytta auriculata Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Lytta auriculata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  • Selander, Richard B. (1960). "Bionomics, Systematics, and Phylogeny of Lytta, a Genus of Blister Beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae)". Illinois Biological Monographs, no. 28, 295.

Further reading

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  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

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Found in the western U.S., especially in the Southwest. First encountered on Tufted Poppy at Pinnacles NP, California in May 2023.