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| Lytta auriculata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Meloidae |
| Genus: | Lytta |
| Species: | L. auriculata
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| Binomial name | |
| Lytta auriculata Horn, 1870
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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
[edit]- ^ "Lytta auriculata Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ 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
[edit]- 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.Relationships
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