Epicauta ventralis
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''Epicauta ventralis'' is a species of blister beetle 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 ...
. It is found in North America.


References

* Pinto, John D. (1991). "The Taxonomy of North American Epicauta (Coleoptera: Meloidae), with a Revision of the Nominate Subgenus and a Survey of Courtship Behavior". ''University of California Publications in Entomology'', vol. 110, x + 372.


Further reading

* Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. * * Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company. Meloidae Beetles described in 1945 {{meloidae-stub