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  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Hexapods
  4. ›Insects
  5. ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
  6. ›Beetles
  7. ›Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles
  8. ›Cucujiform Beetles
  9. ›Darkling Beetles and Allies
  10. ›Blister Beetles
  11. ›Meloinae
  12. ›Meloini
  13. ›Meloe
  14. ›Treiodous
Meloe laevis
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Meloe laevis

Meloe laevis, the oil beetle, is a species of blister beetle in the family Meloidae. It is found in the Caribbean, Central America, and North America.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 311104.