# Lytta

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***Lytta*** is a genus of [blister beetles](/source/Blister_beetle) in the family [Meloidae](/source/Meloidae). There are about 70 described species in [North America](/source/North_America), and over 100 species worldwide.[1][2][3]

## Selected species

These species, and others, belong to the genus *Lytta*:[2][1]

- *[Lytta aenea](/source/Lytta_aenea)* Say, 1824
- *[Lytta aeneipennis](/source/Lytta_aeneipennis)* (LeConte, 1851)
- *[Lytta agrestis](/source/Lytta_agrestis)* (Fall, 1901)
- *[Lytta arizonica](/source/Lytta_arizonica)* Selander, 1957
- *[Lytta augusti](/source/Lytta_augusti)* Haag-Rutenberg, 1880
- *[Lytta auriculata](/source/Lytta_auriculata)* Horn, 1870 (red-eared blister beetle)
- *[Lytta battonii](/source/Lytta_battonii)* Kaszab, 1962
- *[Lytta biguttata](/source/Lytta_biguttata)* LeConte, 1853
- *[Lytta bipuncticollis](/source/Lytta_bipuncticollis)* Haag-Rutenberg, 1880
- *[Lytta blaisdelli](/source/Lytta_blaisdelli)* (Fall, 1909)
- *[Lytta boleti](/source/Lytta_boleti)* Marsham, 1802
- *[Lytta bruchi](/source/Lytta_bruchi)* Pic, 1927
- *[Lytta canelas](/source/Lytta_canelas)* Selander, 1960
- *[Lytta cardinalis](/source/Lytta_cardinalis)* Chevrolat, 1834
- *[Lytta childi](/source/Lytta_childi)* LeConte, 1857
- *[Lytta chloris](/source/Lytta_chloris)* (Fall, 1901)
- *[Lytta comans](/source/Lytta_comans)* Selander, 1960
- *[Lytta corallifera](/source/Lytta_corallifera)* Haag-Rutenberg, 1880
- *[Lytta cribrata](/source/Lytta_cribrata)* LeConte, 1853
- *[Lytta crotchi](/source/Lytta_crotchi)* (Horn, 1874)
- *[Lytta crotchii](/source/Lytta_crotchii)* (Horn, 1874)
- *[Lytta cyanipennis](/source/Lytta_cyanipennis)* (LeConte, 1851) (green blister beetle)
- *[Lytta deserticola](/source/Lytta_deserticola)* Horn, 1870
- *[Lytta ebenina](/source/Lytta_ebenina)* (Dugès, 1877)
- *[Lytta erebea](/source/Lytta_erebea)* (Champion, 1892)
- *[Lytta erythrothorax](/source/Lytta_erythrothorax)* (Herrera & Mendoza, 1867)
- *[Lytta eucera](/source/Lytta_eucera)* (Chevrolat, 1834)
- *[Lytta flavicollis](/source/Lytta_flavicollis)* Gyllenhal, 1817
- *[Lytta fulvipennis](/source/Lytta_fulvipennis)* LeConte, 1853
- *[Lytta funerea](/source/Lytta_funerea)* (Fall, 1901)
- *[Lytta hirsuta](/source/Lytta_hirsuta)*
- *[Lytta hoppingi](/source/Lytta_hoppingi)* Wellman, 1912
- *[Lytta icterica](/source/Lytta_icterica)* Gyllenhal, 1817
- *[Lytta insperata](/source/Lytta_insperata)* (Horn, 1874)
- *[Lytta koltzei](/source/Lytta_koltzei)* Haag-Rutenberg, 1880
- *[Lytta lecontei](/source/Lytta_lecontei)* Heyden, 1890
- *[Lytta lineola](/source/Lytta_lineola)*
- *[Lytta lugens](/source/Lytta_lugens)* (LeConte, 1851)
- *[Lytta lugubris](/source/Lytta_lugubris)* (Horn, 1873)
- *[Lytta magister](/source/Lytta_magister)* Horn, 1870 (master blister beetle)
- *[Lytta manicata](/source/Lytta_manicata)* J.Sahlberg, 1903
- *[Lytta margarita](/source/Lytta_margarita)* (Fall, 1901)
- *[Lytta medvedevi](/source/Lytta_medvedevi)* Shapovalov, 2016
- *[Lytta melaena](/source/Lytta_melaena)* LeConte, 1858
- *[Lytta melanurus](/source/Lytta_melanurus)* (Hope, 1831)
- *[Lytta michoacanae](/source/Lytta_michoacanae)* (Champion, 1892)
- *[Lytta mirifica](/source/Lytta_mirifica)* Werner, 1950 (Anthony blister beetle)
- *[Lytta moerens](/source/Lytta_moerens)* (LeConte, 1851)
- *[Lytta moesta](/source/Lytta_moesta)* (Horn, 1878)
- *[Lytta molesta](/source/Lytta_molesta)* (Horn, 1885)
- *[Lytta morosa](/source/Lytta_morosa)* (Fall, 1901)
- *[Lytta morrisoni](/source/Lytta_morrisoni)* (Horn, 1891) (Morrison's blister beetle)
- *[Lytta mutilata](/source/Lytta_mutilata)* (Horn, 1875)
- *[Lytta navajo](/source/Lytta_navajo)* Werner, 1951
- *[Lytta nigripilis](/source/Lytta_nigripilis)* (Fall, 1901)
- *[Lytta nigrocyanea](/source/Lytta_nigrocyanea)* Van Dyke, 1929
- *[Lytta nitidicollis](/source/Lytta_nitidicollis)* (LeConte, 1851)
- *[Lytta nuttalli](/source/Lytta_nuttalli)* Say, 1824 (Nuttall's blister beetle)
- *[Lytta peninsularis](/source/Lytta_peninsularis)* (Fall, 1901)
- *[Lytta plumbea](/source/Lytta_plumbea)* Haag-Rutenberg, 1880
- *[Lytta polita](/source/Lytta_polita)* Say, 1824 (bronze blister beetle)
- *[Lytta proteus](/source/Lytta_proteus)* Haag-Rutenberg, 1880
- *[Lytta puberula](/source/Lytta_puberula)* LeConte, 1866
- *[Lytta quadrimaculata](/source/Lytta_quadrimaculata)* (Chevrolat, 1834)
- *[Lytta rathvoni](/source/Lytta_rathvoni)* LeConte, 1853
- *[Lytta refulgens](/source/Lytta_refulgens)* Horn, 1870
- *[Lytta regiszahiri](/source/Lytta_regiszahiri)* Kaszab, 1958
- *[Lytta reticulata](/source/Lytta_reticulata)* Say, 1824
- *[Lytta sanguinea](/source/Lytta_sanguinea)* Haag-Rutenberg, 1880
- *[Lytta sayi](/source/Lytta_sayi)* LeConte, 1853 (Say blister beetle)
- *[Lytta scitula](/source/Lytta_scitula)* (Champion, 1892)
- *[Lytta scituloides](/source/Lytta_scituloides)* Selander, 1960
- *[Lytta skrylniki](/source/Lytta_skrylniki)* Shapovalov, 2016
- *[Lytta sonorae](/source/Lytta_sonorae)* Van Dyke, 1947
- *[Lytta strigata](/source/Lytta_strigata)* Gyllenhal, 1817
- *[Lytta stygica](/source/Lytta_stygica)* (LeConte, 1851)
- *[Lytta sublaevis](/source/Lytta_sublaevis)* (Horn, 1868)
- *[Lytta tenebrosa](/source/Lytta_tenebrosa)* (LeConte, 1851)
- *[Lytta unguicularis](/source/Lytta_unguicularis)* (LeConte, 1866)
- *[Lytta variabilis](/source/Lytta_variabilis)* (Dugès, 1869)
- *[Lytta vesicatoria](/source/Lytta_vesicatoria)* (Linnaeus, 1758)
- *[Lytta viridana](/source/Lytta_viridana)* LeConte, 1866
- *[Lytta vulnerata](/source/Lytta_vulnerata)* (LeConte, 1851)
- † *[Lytta aesculapii](/source/Lytta_aesculapii)* Heer, 1847
- † *[Lytta lithophila](/source/Lytta_lithophila)* (Wickham, 1914)

## References

1. ["*Lytta* Report"](https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=114403). *Integrated Taxonomic Information System*. Retrieved 2019-10-21.

1. ["*Lytta*"](https://www.gbif.org/species/1046543). *GBIF*. Retrieved 2019-10-21.

1. ["*Lytta* genus Information"](https://bugguide.net/node/view/13503). *BugGuide.net*. Retrieved 2019-10-21.

## Further reading

- Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.) (2013). *Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea*. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.
- Pinto, J. D. & Bologna, M. A. (1999). "The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis". *Journal of Natural History*. **33** (4): 569–620. [Bibcode:1999JNatH..33..569P](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999JNatH..33..569P). [doi:10.1080/002229399300254](https://doi.org/10.1080/002229399300254)
- Selander, R. B. (1960). ["Bionomics, Systematics, and Phylogeny of Lytta, a Genus of Blister Beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae)"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/50342). *Illinois Biological Monographs*. **28**. [doi:10.5962/bhl.title.50342](https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.50342). [hdl:2142/27166](https://hdl.handle.net/2142/27166)

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