Family Meloidae

The blister beetles

Subfamily Meloinae

Tribe Pyrotini

Pyrota Dejean

• P. limbalis LeConte, DC-NC-FL (ALA, CLA, DIX, LEV, MARI, PUT)
• P. lineata (Olivier), GA-FL (ALA, BRA, DUV, ESC, HER, HIG, LEV, MARI, OKA, ORA, PIN, PUT, TAY, VOL)
• P. mutata (Gemminger), seUS, FL (ALA, CAL, HIG, LIB, OKA, POL, UNI)
• P. sinuata (Olivier), LA, NC, FL (ALA, FRA, HOL, LEO)

Tribe Lyttini

Lytta Fabricius

• L. polita Say, GA, FL (ALA, BAK, BRO, CHA, CLA, DUV, ESC, HAM, HIG, IND, JEF, LIB, MAN, MARI, MART, OKA, ORA, PAL, PUT, SAR, SRO, VOL)
  = femoralis LeConte

Tribe Epicautini

Epicauta Dejean (beetles of this genus can cause fatal poisoning of horses if they are trapped in bales of alfalfa)

• E. batesii Horn, NJ-AL-FL (HIG, LEV)
• E. excavatifrons Maydell, MS, AL, FL
• E. fabricii (LeConte), the ashgray blister beetle, AZ-MB-ME-FL (south to HIG)
• E. floridensis Werner, MS-NJ-FL (south to MAR)
• E. heterodera Horn, MS, GA, FL (ALA, COLU, LEV, PUT)
• E. lemniscata Fabricius, the threestriped blister beetle, KS-NJ-FL Mexico
• E. pennsylvanica Degeer, the black blister beetle, Can-FL (LEO), Mexico
• E. pestifera Werner, the margined blister beetle, eUS, FL (south to IND); a pest of some crop plants
• E. sanguinicollis LeConte, GA-FL (ALA, CIT, SUM, BRE)
• E. strigosa Gyllenhal, MS-NJ-FL
• E. tenuis LeConte, GA, FL (BAK, VOL, s to HIG)
• E. torsa LeConte, TX-MA, FL
• E. vittata (Fabricius), the striped blister beetle, eUS, FL (ALA); a pest of some crops

Subfamily Nemognathinae

Tribe Tetraonychini

Tetraonyx Latreille

• T. quadrimaculata (Fabricius), AL-NC-FL (ALA, LEO, MARI, PUT, WAS), Cuba, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles

Tribe Nemognathini

Gnathium Kirby

• G. francilloni Kirby, seUS, FL (ALA, COLU, HER, LEV, MARI, NAS, SJO, UNI, VOL, WAS)
• G. sp. 1, FL (FLA, IND, so identified by R.B. Selander)
• G. sp. 2, FL (HIG, so identified by R.B. Selander)

Nemognatha Illiger

• N. nemorensis Hentz, eUS and wUS, FL (ALA, PIN, BRE, CLA, COLU, DAD, DUV, HIG, IND, LAK, LEV, LIB, ORA, PUT, TAY, UNI, VOL)
• N. piazata Fabricius, MS-WV-FL (ALA, BRO, CHA, CIT, CLA, COLL, COLU, DAD, DES, DUV, ESC, HAR, HEN, HIG, LEV, MARI, MON, OKA, PAL, POL, PUT, SAR, SLU, UNI, VOL)
• N. punctulata LeConte, seUS, FL (ALA, BRO, COLL, DAD, DUV, HIL, IND, LEO, LEV, MAN, MARI, MON, PUT, SAR, SLU), Cuba, Bahamas, Cayman Islands; in nests of Megachile bees; erroneously listed as Zonitis vittigera (LeConte)

Tribe Zonitini

Pseudozonitis Dillon

• P. longicornis Horn, TX-KS-SC-FL (ALA, DAD, MON)
• P. pallida Dillon, OK-TX-FL (ALA, COLU, DIX, HIL, LEV)
• p. schaefferi (Blatchley), SC-FL (PIN, SJO, VOL)

Zonitis Fabricius

• Z. cribricollis (LeConte), AZ-TX-IN, FL
• Z. schaefferi Blatchley, FL endemic (south to DAD)
• Z. vittigera (LeConte), eUS, FL (HIG, IND, MART, SRO)

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