Page 2 · Blister Beetles (Meloidae) - 246 Species, Identification & Facts

Pyrota insulata

Identification: Black elytra with narrow yellow, gold, or orange margins (outer and inner), an apical spot, and a thin longitudinal basal stripe. Legs and abdomen black; head and thorax mostly black with some yellow areas. Amount of black vs. brighte

Pyrota invita

Identification: dark head, legs and scutellum Det. E. G. Riley, 2004 Type Locality: near San Antonio, Texas

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Pyrota limbalis

Identification: Elytra black, with the entire limb [edge] yellow. (LeConte, 1866) Lectotype Locality: Norfolk, Virginia

Pyrota mylabrina

The species does not appear to be as common as some of its relatives, although its poor representation in collections is perhaps accounted for in some part by the adults being active early in the year and the fact that the species ranges only a short

Pyrota nigrovittata

Identification: lateral pronotal black spots, plus a pair of interocular black spots In 1957 Selander described Pyrota bicurvata . In 1963 he synonymized bicurvata with nigrovittata . For US records of nigrovittata one has to refer to the 1957 descri

Pyrota perversa

Identification: Metatibial spurs robust, slightly obliquely truncate, concave, the inner one oval... ALLOTYPE hind leg final couplet in Selander: Head oval, at least as wide across eyes as at tempora, which are very broadly rounded; head coarsely pun

Pyrota plagiata

Identification: Postmedian elytral fascia quadrate, not much longer than broad. Elytra very shiny, with the intervals between the very feeble costulae very flat. --- Pyrota postica LeConte Postmedian elytra fascia elongate-oval. Elytra subopaque, wit

Pyrota riherdi

" Pyrota riherdi Dillon, small range is southernmost TX, was pretty uncommon in collections until about 20 years ago when I was able a couple of times to find them, think I was with Robert Turnbow once, and caught some feeding on a plant one day, but

Pyrota tenuicostatis

our only representative of the Tenuicostatis Group (4 spp., TX to Venezuela) "...we saw literally clouds of these beetles flying through the air and aggregating on trees... there were 10,000 or more individuals in an area of a couple of acres [in so.

Pyrota terrestris

Identification: very distinctive species, easily recognized by its color pattern , very shiny and smooth elytra, the form of its hind tibial spurs, and other characters. only one spmn on GBIF, which was part of the original type series from Durango,

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Pyrota victoria

Identification: yellow, shining, entirely immaculate except a pair of rounded, black spots at middle of pronotal disk. Type Locality: Victoria, Texas, September 19, 1909 on Croton , (J. D. Mitchell)

Rhyphonemognatha rufa

Identification: Similar to Nemognatha , but has galae unmodified. Bright red with appendages black. Pronotum shiny, sparsely punctate. Elytra densely punctate and pubescent. Type Locality: Texas

Tegrodera erosa

Identification: Separated geographically from T. aloga by Colorado Desert . The medial black stripe (across the middle of the elytra) that is present in the other two species of Tegrodera is much shorter (front-to-back) and less pronounced in T. eros

Iron Cross Blister Beetle

Tegrodera latecincta

Identification: Differs from its two congeners in having a somewhat longer (from front-to-back) black transverse stripe across the elytra than the others (taking up about 1/5 the elytral length)...as well as in a few other less conspicuous characters

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Tetraonyx femoralis

Identification: Front of head and all of tibiae black. Dorsal surface rather closely punctured.

Tetraonyx fulva

Identification: Front of head and part of tibiae pale. Dorsal surface only moderately densely punctured Det. E. G. Riley, 2004

Tricrania sanguinipennis

Identification: Body black with abundant hairs (setae), elytra red. Wings reduced--flightless . The only eastern Tricrania .

Zonitis atripennis

Identification: elytra either yellow, yellow with black apex, or all black, the three known under the subspecific names of flavida LeConte, terminalis Enns, and atripennis , respectively. - atripennis (Say) - CO-WY-SD-n.TX - mostly CO (BG data) - fla

Zonitis bilineata

Identification: thickness of black elytral strip variable from abscent to nearly encompassing each elytron.

Zonitis cribricollis

Identification: Body surface moderately shining. Color variable, usually testaceous or fulvous except antennae, eyes, palpi, galeae, tips of mandibles, metasternum, tibiae, and tarsi fuscous varying to piceous. Head often dark brown in specimens that

Zonitis interpretis

Identification: larger eyes, longer antennae than usual in Zonitis ; abdomen may be brown. probably nocturnal

Zonitis punctipennis

Identification: Body nude; elytra densely punctate (unlike in Z.dunniana and sayi in which punctures are separated usually by >2x their diameter). Sexually dimorphic: male all yellow, antennae, tips of mandibles + tarsi dark; female with appendages