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Blister Beetle

Nemognatha lutea lutea

Photo by Tamarac Denis
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44.1388, -92.492

Field Notes

Description:

About 1/4 to 5/16ths inch long body.

Habitat:

On center of Black-eyed Susan in prairie.

Notes:

Spotted on Oronoco Prairie Scientific and Natural Area. One reference on bugguide suggested Nemognatha piazata. http://bugguide.net/node/view/464298/bgimage However, best match of appearance and description of my spotting found in Insects of the North Woods by Jeffrey Hahn.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Gordon Dietzman
Incidently, I photographed probably this same species at Minneopa State Park, not far from where you photographed yours. See mine at http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6329007. Very cool insects....
Gordon Dietzman
This is, I believe, one of the blister beetles, Blister Beetle in the family Nemognathinae. You may want to take a look at http://bugguide.net/node/view/362119/bgpage and start at this page to see if you can narrow the ID down somewhat.

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PublishedJuly 6, 2013

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