page_title: Hycleus polymorphus
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Hycleus polymorphus / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Hycleus polymorphus
context_page_description: Hycleus polymorphus is a species of Blister Beetles belonging to the family Meloidae subfamily Meloinae.
context_section_description: The adults of Hycleus polymorphus grow up to 11–20 millimetres (0.43–0.79 in) long.  These beetles have an elongate soft body, with a long erect black hair on the pronotum and on the head. They are completely black, with yellow-orange stripes on elytra and two yellow-orange spots enclosed in the apical dark bands. They have very different colourful patterns (hence the Latin word polymorphus). Anterior and middle black bands of elytra extend to outer border and along suture.
  This species is very similar to Mylabris variabilis, but in the latter the apical spots are missing, while there are more or less extended black bands.
caption: Hycleus polymorphus - female
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