Meloinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family
Meloidae
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 ...
. There are at least 330 described species in Meloinae.
Genera
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Cordylospasta''
Horn, 1875
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Cysteodemus''
LeConte, 1851 (desert spider beetles)
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Epicauta
''Epicauta'' is a genus of beetles in the blister beetle family, blister beetle, Meloidae. The genus was first scientifically described in 1834 by Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean. ''Epicauta'' is distributed nearly worldwide, with species n ...
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Dejean, 1834
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Eupompha
''Eupompha'' is a genus of blister beetles in the family Meloidae
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 ar ...
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LeConte, 1858
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Linsleya''
MacSwain, 1951
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Lytta
'' Lytta vesicatoria'', the Spanish fly
''Lytta'' is a genus of blister beetles in the family Meloidae. There are about 70 described species in North America, and over 100 species worldwide.
Selected species
These species, and others, belong ...
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Fabricius, 1775
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Megetra
''Megetra'' is a genus of blister beetles in the family Meloidae. There are at least three described species in ''Megetra''.
Species
These three species belong to the genus ''Megetra'':
* ''Megetra cancellata'' (Brandt & Erichson, 1832)
* ''Mege ...
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LeConte, 1859
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Meloe
The blister beetle genus ''Meloe'' is a large, widespread group commonly referred to as oil beetles. They are known as "oil beetles" because they release oily droplets of hemolymph from their joints when disturbed; this contains cantharidin, a ...
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Linnaeus, 1758 (oil beetles)
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Phodaga''
LeConte, 1858
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Pleuropasta''
Wellman, 1909
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Pyrota''
Dejean, 1834
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Spastonyx''
Selander, 1954
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Tegrodera''
LeConte, 1851 (iron cross blister beetles)
References
* Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". ''Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2'', 779–1006.
* Pinto, J. D., and M. A. Bologna (1999). "The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis". ''Journal of Natural History, vol. 33, no. 4'', 569–620.
* Pinto, John D., and Marco A. Bologna (2002). "Family 111. Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810". ''American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea'', 522–529.
Further reading
* 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 .
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* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Meloidae
Polyphaga subfamilies
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