Meloe americanus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Meloidae
- Genus
- Meloe
- Species
- Meloe americanus
- Scientific Name
- Meloe americanus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Meloe americanus
Meloe americanus is a type of blister beetle (Meloidae) found in North America. It is most relevant to the fields of agriculture and veterinary medicine. Adult beetles feed on different types of plants, which cause crop damage. They also release a fluid containing a chemical that is toxic, and at high concentrations lethal, to mammals. The first instar larvae are uniquely active and mobile, utilizing phoresy and parasitism to feed and mature through their developmental stages.
...Meloe americanus in languages:
- English
- Buttercup Oil Beetle
- English
- American Oil Beetle
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Meloe abyssinicus
- Meloe americanus
- Meloe angusticollis
- Meloe auriculatus
- Meloe campanicollis
- Meloe carbonaceus
- Meloe coarctatus
- Meloe dianella
- Meloe dianellus
- Meloe dugesi
- Meloe formosensis
- Meloe franciscanus
- Meloe hottentotus
- Meloe impressus
- Meloe lobatus
- Meloe menoko
- Meloe monticola
- Meloe nebulosus
- Meloe niger
- Meloe occultus
- Meloe proscarabaeus
- Meloe rhodesianus
- Meloe strigulosus
- Meloe tropicus
- Meloe vandykei
- Meloe violaceus































































































































































