Oenas

This article is about the Blister beetle genus Oenas. For the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, see Unas.
Oenas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Meloidae
Subfamily: Meloinae
Tribe: Lyttini
Genus: Oenas
Latreille, 1802
Type species
Meloe afer
Linnaeus, 1767
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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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