page_title: Blister beetle
section_title: Subfamily Nemognathinae
hierarchical_section_title: Blister beetle / Systematics / Subfamily Nemognathinae
context_page_description: Blister beetles are beetles of the family Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin. About 7,500 species are known worldwide. Many are conspicuous and some are aposematically colored, announcing their toxicity to would-be predators.
context_section_description: Tribe Horiini
  Cissites
  Horia
  Synhoria
  Tribe Nemognathini
  Cochliophorus
  Euzonitis
  Gnathium
  Gnathonemula
  Leptopalpus
  Megatrachelus
  Nemognatha
  Palaestra
  Palaestrida
  Pseudozonitis
  Rhyphonemognatha
  Stenodera
  Zonitis
  Zonitodema
  Zonitolytta
  Zonitomorpha
  Zonitoschema
  Tribe Sitarini
  Allendeselazaria
  Apalus
  Ctenopus
  Glasunovia
  Nyadatus
  Sitaris
  Sitarobrachys
  Stenoria
  Genera incertae sedis
  Hornia
  Onyctenus
  Sitaromorpha
  Tricrania
caption: Sitaris muralis (Nemognathinae: Sitarini)
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