'' Lytta vesicatoria'', the Spanish fly ''Lytta'' is a genus of

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s in the family Meloidae. There are about 70 described species in

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, and over 100 species worldwide.

Selected species

These species, and others, belong to the genus ''Lytta'': * '' Lytta aenea'' Say, 1824 * '' Lytta aeneipennis'' (LeConte, 1851) * '' Lytta agrestis'' (Fall, 1901) * '' Lytta arizonica'' Selander, 1957 * '' Lytta augusti'' Haag-Rutenberg, 1880 * '' Lytta auriculata'' Horn, 1870 (red-eared blister beetle) * '' Lytta battonii'' Kaszab, 1962 * '' Lytta biguttata'' LeConte, 1853 * '' Lytta bipuncticollis'' Haag-Rutenberg, 1880 * '' Lytta blaisdelli'' (Fall, 1909) * '' Lytta boleti'' Marsham, 1802 * '' Lytta bruchi'' Pic, 1927 * '' Lytta canelas'' Selander, 1960 * '' Lytta cardinalis'' Chevrolat, 1834 * '' Lytta childi'' LeConte, 1857 * '' Lytta chloris'' (Fall, 1901) * '' Lytta comans'' Selander, 1960 * '' Lytta corallifera'' Haag-Rutenberg, 1880 * '' Lytta cribrata'' LeConte, 1853 * '' Lytta crotchi'' (Horn, 1874) * '' Lytta crotchii'' (Horn, 1874) * '' Lytta cyanipennis'' (LeConte, 1851) (green blister beetle) * '' Lytta deserticola'' Horn, 1870 * '' Lytta ebenina'' (Dugès, 1877) * '' Lytta erebea'' (Champion, 1892) * '' Lytta erythrothorax'' (Herrera & Mendoza, 1867) * '' Lytta eucera'' (Chevrolat, 1834) * '' Lytta flavicollis'' Gyllenhal, 1817 * '' Lytta fulvipennis'' LeConte, 1853 * '' Lytta funerea'' (Fall, 1901) * '' Lytta hirsuta'' * '' Lytta hoppingi'' Wellman, 1912 * '' Lytta icterica'' Gyllenhal, 1817 * '' Lytta insperata'' (Horn, 1874) * '' Lytta koltzei'' Haag-Rutenberg, 1880 * '' Lytta lecontei'' Heyden, 1890 * '' Lytta lineola'' * '' Lytta lugens'' (LeConte, 1851) * '' Lytta lugubris'' (Horn, 1873) * '' Lytta magister'' Horn, 1870 (master blister beetle) * '' Lytta manicata'' J.Sahlberg, 1903 * '' Lytta margarita'' (Fall, 1901) * '' Lytta medvedevi'' Shapovalov, 2016 * '' Lytta melaena'' LeConte, 1858 * '' Lytta melanurus'' (Hope, 1831) * '' Lytta michoacanae'' (Champion, 1892) * '' Lytta mirifica'' Werner, 1950 (Anthony blister beetle) * '' Lytta moerens'' (LeConte, 1851) * '' Lytta moesta'' (Horn, 1878) * '' Lytta molesta'' (Horn, 1885) * '' Lytta morosa'' (Fall, 1901) * '' Lytta morrisoni'' (Horn, 1891) (Morrison's blister beetle) * '' Lytta mutilata'' (Horn, 1875) * '' Lytta navajo'' Werner, 1951 * '' Lytta nigripilis'' (Fall, 1901) * '' Lytta nigrocyanea'' Van Dyke, 1929 * '' Lytta nitidicollis'' (LeConte, 1851) * '' Lytta nuttalli'' Say, 1824 (Nuttall's blister beetle) * '' Lytta peninsularis'' (Fall, 1901) * '' Lytta plumbea'' Haag-Rutenberg, 1880 * '' Lytta polita'' Say, 1824 (bronze blister beetle) * '' Lytta proteus'' Haag-Rutenberg, 1880 * '' Lytta puberula'' LeConte, 1866 * '' Lytta quadrimaculata'' (Chevrolat, 1834) * '' Lytta rathvoni'' LeConte, 1853 * '' Lytta refulgens'' Horn, 1870 * '' Lytta regiszahiri'' Kaszab, 1958 * '' Lytta reticulata'' Say, 1824 * '' Lytta sanguinea'' Haag-Rutenberg, 1880 * '' Lytta sayi'' LeConte, 1853 (Say blister beetle) * '' Lytta scitula'' (Champion, 1892) * '' Lytta scituloides'' Selander, 1960 * '' Lytta skrylniki'' Shapovalov, 2016 * '' Lytta sonorae'' Van Dyke, 1947 * '' Lytta strigata'' Gyllenhal, 1817 * '' Lytta stygica'' (LeConte, 1851) * '' Lytta sublaevis'' (Horn, 1868) * '' Lytta tenebrosa'' (LeConte, 1851) * '' Lytta unguicularis'' (LeConte, 1866) * '' Lytta variabilis'' (Dugès, 1869) * ''

Lytta vesicatoria ''Lytta vesicatoria'', also known as the Spanish fly, is an aposematic emerald-green beetle in the blister beetle family (Meloidae). It is distributed across Eurasia. The species and others in its family were used in traditional apothecary p ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * '' Lytta viridana'' LeConte, 1866 * '' Lytta vulnerata'' (LeConte, 1851) * † '' Lytta aesculapii'' Heer, 1847 * † '' Lytta lithophila'' (Wickham, 1914)

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* * Meloidae Tenebrionoidea genera {{meloidae-stub

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