Lytta vesicatoria🪲

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SpeciesColeopteraMeloidae
Arthropods

🪲Lytta vesicatoria

Lytta vesicatoria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lytta vesicatoria, also known as the Spanish fly, is an aposematic emerald-green beetle in the blister beetle family (Meloidae). It is distributed across Eurasia.

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lytta spanishfly
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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderColeoptera
  5. ›familyMeloidae
  6. ›genusLytta
  7. ›speciesLytta vesicatoria
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  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderBeetles · Coleoptera
  3. suborderPolyphaga
  4. genusLytta
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumHexapoda
  4. classInsects · Insecta
  5. subclassPterygota
  6. orderBeetles · Coleoptera
  7. suborderPolyphaga
  8. genusLytta
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