''Cissites'' is a genus of
blister beetle
Blister beetles are beetles of the family Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin. About 7,500 species are known worldwide. Many are conspicuous and some are aposematically colored, announcing their ...
s in the family
Meloidae. There are at least four described species in ''Cissites''.
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Species
These four species belong to the genus ''Cissites'':
* '' Cissites auriculata'' (Champion, 1892) (big-eared blister beetle)
* '' Cissites cephalotes'' (Olivier, 1795)
* ''Cissites maculata
''Cissites maculata'' is a species of blister beetle that lives on the Galápagos Islands. They are a brood parasite of ''Xylocopa darwini
''Xylocopa darwini'', the Galápagos carpenter bee, is the only native species of bee in the Galápago ...
'' (Swederus, 1787)
* '' Cissites sasakii'' Kono, 1936
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