Burning Blister Beetles

Epicauta hieroglyphica

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Meloidae

Epicauta is a genus of beetles in the blister beetle family, Meloidae. The genus was first scientifically described in 1834 by Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean. Epicauta is distributed nearly worldwide, with species native to all continents except Australia and Antarctica.

Distribution

Burning Blister Beetles — (c) Thomaz Ricardo Favreto Sinani, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Brazil · 2

Sources and credits

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Burning Blister Beetles

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