Lytta auriculata

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Lytta auriculata, the red-eared blister beetle, is a species of blister beetles in the family Meloidae.{{cite web|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/13998|title=Lytta auriculata Species Information|website=BugGuide.net|accessdate=2018-01-27}}{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=731741|title=Lytta auriculata Report|website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System|accessdate=2018-01-27}} It is found in Central America and North America.

References

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  • Selander, Richard B. (1960). "Bionomics, Systematics, and Phylogeny of Lytta, a Genus of Blister Beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae)". Illinois Biological Monographs, no. 28, 295.

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Further reading

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  • 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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Category:Meloidae

Category:Beetles described in 1870

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