Tetraonyx quadrimaculata

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Tetraonyx quadrimaculata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Meloidae
Genus: Tetraonyx
Species:
T. quadrimaculata
Binomial name
Tetraonyx quadrimaculata
(Fabricius, 1792)

Tetraonyx quadrimaculata is a species of blister beetle in the family Meloidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea and North America. [1] [2] [3]

Blister beetle family of insects, Coleoptera

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.

Caribbean Sea A sea of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by North, Central, and South America

The Caribbean Sea is an American Mediterranean Sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and south west, to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba, to the east by the Lesser Antilles, and to the south by the north coast of South America.

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References

  1. ↑ "Tetraonyx quadrimaculata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ↑ "Tetraonyx quadrimaculata". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

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