Lytta

{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = 366 - Blister Beetle - Lytta aenea, Julie Metz Wetlands, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg

| image_caption = Lytta aenea

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Lytta

| authority = Fabricius, 1775

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file:Lytta-vesicatoria.jpg, 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.

File:Lytta auriculata.jpg]]

Selected species

These species, and others, belong to the genus Lytta:

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References

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{{Cite web| title=Lytta Report

| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=114403

| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System

| accessdate=2019-10-21

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{{Cite web| title=Lytta

| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1046543

| website=GBIF

| accessdate=2019-10-21

}}

{{Cite web| title=Lytta genus Information

| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/13503

| website=BugGuide.net

| accessdate=2019-10-21

}}

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite book

| title = Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea

| date = 2013

| editor-last1 = Lobl | editor-first1 = I.

| editor-last2 = Smetana | editor-first2 = A.

| publisher = Apollo Books

| isbn = 978-90-04-26090-0

}}

  • {{Cite journal

| title = The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis

| date = 1999

| last1 = Pinto | first1 = J. D.

| last2 = Bologna | first2 = M. A.

| journal = Journal of Natural History

| volume = 33| issue = 4| pages = 569–620

| doi = 10.1080/002229399300254

| bibcode = 1999JNatH..33..569P

}}

  • {{Cite journal

| title = Bionomics, Systematics, and Phylogeny of Lytta, a Genus of Blister Beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae)

| date = 1960

| last1 = Selander | first1 = R. B.

| journal = Illinois Biological Monographs

| volume = 28

| doi = 10.5962/bhl.title.50342

| hdl = 2142/27166

| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/50342

| hdl-access = free

}}

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