Blister Beetles
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Description: Provides photographs and a description of these beetles, their distribution, life cycle and medical and veterinary importance.
scientific name: (Insecta: Coleoptera: Meloidae) The family Meloidae, the blister beetles, contains about 2500 species, divided among 120 genera and four subfamilies (Bologna and Pinto 2001). Florida has 26 species, only a small fraction of the total number in the U.S., but nearly three times that of the West Indies (Selander and Bouseman 1960). Adult beetles are phytophagous, feeding especially on plants in the families Amaranthaceae, Asteraceae, Leguminosae, and Solanaceae. Most adults eat only floral parts, but some, particularly those of
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| Page title: | blister beetles |
| Keywords: | blister beetles Coleoptera Meloidae Selander Fasulo |
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| IP-address: | 128.227.242.110 |
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| NS | Name Servers: NS.NAME.UFL.EDU 128.227.30.254 RNS.NAME.UFL.EDU 8.6.245.30 |
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| Date | activated: 25-Mar-1986 last updated: 03-Feb-2014 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |