Phylogeny, biogeography and systematics of the hyper-diverse blister beetle genus Hycleus (Coleoptera: Meloidae)

A Riccieri, E Mancini, D Salvi, MA Bologna - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hycleus is a hyper-diverse genus of blister beetles including~ 500 species widely distributed
in the Old World, currently divided into three “sections” and into 45 “phenetic” species …

Multigene phylogeny of blister beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae) reveals extensive polyphyly of the tribe Lyttini and allows redefining its boundaries

A Riccieri, E Mancini, M Pitzalis, D Salvi… - Systematic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Meloidae is a beetle family with about 3000 species divided into three subfamilies and 16
tribes. Included is the tribe Lyttini containing 33 genera and about 400 species. However …

Phylogenetic systematics of Mylabris blister beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae): a molecular assessment using species trees and total evidence

D Salvi, M Maura, Z Pan, MA Bologna - Cladistics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Molecular phylogenetic studies of the Mylabrini blister beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae)

MA Bologna, B D'Inzillo, M Cervelli, M Oliverio… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2005 - Elsevier
The blister beetles (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea, Meloidae) include over 2500 species in
approximately 125 genera. This family is of general biological relevance because of its …

Patterns of morphological diversification in giant Berberomeloe blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae) reveal an unexpected taxonomic diversity concordant with …

A Sánchez-Vialas, M García-París… - Zoological Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Delimiting species boundaries is a complex challenge usually hindered by overlooked
morphological diversification or misinterpretation of geographically structured phenotypic …

Phylogeny of Meloini blister beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae) and patterns of island colonization in the Western Palaearctic

A Sánchez‐Vialas, E Recuero… - Zoologica …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Flightless, phoretic insects of the tribe Meloini include several widespread species able to
inhabit both mainland and oceanic and continental islands. Relationships between phoretic …

[PDF][PDF] The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of the United Arab Emirates with an updated Arabian checklist

MA Bologna, F Turco - Zootaxa, 2007 - researchgate.net
This is the first contribution on the blister beetles (Meloidae) of the United Arab Emirates
(UAE), but new records from all countries of the Arabian Peninsula are also included, with …

New insights on the rare blind blister beetle genus Meloetyphlus (Coleoptera: Meloidae): occurrence in Colombia, SEM larval description, and molecular …

A Di Giulio, T Kondo, MA Bologna… - Annals of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Meloetyphlus Waterhouse is a monotypic genus of Meloidae ascribed to the tribe
Tetraonycini, subfamily Meloinae. As for most blister beetles, its first-instar larvae (or …

Phylogeny and evolutionary history of the blister beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae)

MA Bologna, M Oliverio, M Pitzalis… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2008 - Elsevier
Meloid beetles are well characterised by both morphological and biological features.
Previous phylogenetic hypotheses based on morphological characters assumed the …

[HTML][HTML]  A new systematic arrangement for the blister beetle genus Eurymeloe (Meloini, Meloidae, Coleoptera) with the description of a new species from Spain

A Sánchez-Vialas, JL Ruiz, E Recuero… - ZooKeys, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract The taxonomic status and subgeneric arrangement of the genus Eurymeloe have
been debated for decades. In this work, the internal taxonomy of Eurymeloe is redefined by …