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Epicauta
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. Surveys have found the genus to be particularly diverse in northern Arizona in the United States. Few species occur in the Arctic, with none farther north than the southern Northwest Territory of Canada.
16 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Epicauta
subgenusEpicauta
Macrobasis
subgenusMacrobasis
Little Grey Blister Beetle
speciesEpicauta velata
Epicauta aptera
speciesEpicauta aptera
Epicauta cognata
speciesEpicauta cognata
Epicauta rufifrons
speciesEpicauta rufifrons
Epicauta brevipennis
speciesEpicauta brevipennis
Epicauta designata
speciesEpicauta designata
Epicauta nyassensis
speciesEpicauta nyassensis
Epicauta strigida
speciesEpicauta strigida
Epicauta elegantula
speciesEpicauta elegantula
Epicauta jucunda
speciesEpicauta jucunda
Epicauta mashuna
speciesEpicauta mashuna
Epicauta moesta
speciesEpicauta moesta
Epicauta ovampoa
speciesEpicauta ovampoa
Epicauta insignis
speciesEpicauta insignis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 59506.