page_title: Mylabris variabilis
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Mylabris variabilis / Description
caption_attribution_description: Les Rives, Hérault, FRANCE
context_page_description: Mylabris variabilis is a species of blister beetle belonging to the Meloidae family.
context_section_description: Mylabris variabilis can reach a body length of 8–20 millimetres (0.31–0.79 in). These beetles have a cylindrical, elongate body with  relatively convex, yellow-orange elytra and wide transverse black wavy stripes. Head is square shaped, with a flat forehead. Antennae are black and long with eleven segments. Pronotum is long and wide, with parallel sides.  The size of the black markings and the color of elytra are very variable (hence the specie name variabilis). Normally they have three black bands. The 1st and 2nd bands are sometimes divided into four distinct spots.  They are however distinguished from the similar species by a black stripe ath the end of the abdomen. This species is very similar to Mylabris pannonica Kaszab, 1956.
caption: Side view
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