Oenas

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Oenas
Oenas afer (Linné, 1767).jpg
Oenas afer
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Meloidae
Tribe: Lyttini
Genus: Oenas
Latreille, 1802
Type species

Linnaeus, 1767

Oenas is a genus of blister beetle related to the well-known Lytta vesicatoria (a.k.a. "Spanish Fly"). The genus is Mediterranean in its distribution (from Morocco & Spain, east to Caucasus, Palestine & Iran).


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