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Blister Beetle from France

Posted by danielj June 14th, 2008 at 12:00 am

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Blister Beetles

Hi Bugman,
Recently back from my holiday on the south coast of France (Cote D’Azur), when out searching for butterflies came across many of these beetle like insects sitting on Flower heads in the early morning. Have looked through your site and have seen similar but none with the 3 orange bands. Any ideas as too id? Thanks
Andrew

checkered beetle france Blister Beetle from France

Hi Andrew,
This is a Checkered Beetle in the family Cleridae. We believe it is in the genus Trichodes, perhaps one of the species pictured on the Insectarium Virtual website.

Correction: January 5, 2010
We just received a comment identifying this as a Blister Beetle.

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Comments 2

  1. cleridoz wrote:

    Hi. The antennae and hind tarsi, plus the shape of the elytra, indicate that this beetle is a ‘blister beetle’ of the family Meloidae, and definitely not a clerid beetle. Cheers!

    Posted 05 Jan 2011 at 6:04 am
  2. bugman wrote:

    Thanks for the correctin.

    Posted 05 Jan 2011 at 9:28 am

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