Aug 1, 2008 · Meloidae, commonly called blister beetles, is a family of Coleoptera Tenebrionoidea which includes almost 3000 species in approximately 125 genera. The family is relatively well known in the biological literature due to its hypermetabolic larval development, parasitoid biology of its larval phases and production of cantharidin (see Bologna ...

Apr 22, 2008 · Molecular dating allowed an outline of the main steps of the evolutionary history of Meloidae, which evolved during Early Cretaceous and then radiated considerably with the adoption of...

Dec 1, 2005 · Fossils of larval Meloidae associated with Megachilidae bees from the Eocene period have been reported (Engel 2005;Poinar 2020), and amber fossils of the stingless bee Proplebeia dominicana...

Mylabris is a diverse genus of Meloidae and includes over 170 species throughout the Palaearctic region, classified into 14 subgenera. The current classification is largely built on taxonomic works pre-dating the application of cladistic methods and based on a few morphological characters.

Mar 1, 2020 · Meloidae is a widely distributed family of beetles characterized by some peculiar biological and ecological traits like the hypermetabolic larval development or the parasitoid habits of larval stages (Bologna, 1991, Bologna, 1990, Bologna and Pinto, 2002).

The oldest known fossil which is considered to be a holometabolous larva (Fig. 5B) is more primitive, having numerous abdominal leglets, relatively long multisegmented antennae, and perhaps ocelli and compound eyes.

Jan 1, 2001 · One of the most recent classifications of Meloidae is based on the assumption that phoretic first-instar larvae evolved twice in the family, once in Meloinae and again in Nemognathinae. Within...

Blister beetles are beetles of the family Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin. About 7,500 species are known worldwide. Many are conspicuous and some are aposematically colored, announcing their toxicity to would-be predators.

Molecular dating allowed an outline of the main steps of the evolutionary history of Meloidae, which evolved during Early Cretaceous and then radiated considerably with the adoption of hypermetaboly and parasitic behaviour, and with repeated, parallel evolution of …

Jun 25, 2024 · The mtgenome-based phylogeny of 51 beetles found the monophyletic of Meloidae, Tenebrionidae, and the sister relationship of Meloidae and Tenebrionidae using Bayesian inference (Tang et al., 2020).