CMR Blisterbeetle

Hycleus oculatus · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Meloidae

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CMR Blisterbeetle
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Hycleus oculatus is a blister beetle that lives in Southern Africa. It was formerly known as Mylabris oculata, also called the CMR bean beetle.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

It belongs to the family Meloidae and is endemic to Southern Africa.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

The species was previously named Mylabris oculata, the CMR bean beetle.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It is native to Southern Africa under its former name Mylabris oculata.

Source: Wikipedia

Lookalikes

It may be confused with other beetles previously called Mylabris oculata.

Source: Wikipedia

Same family (Meloidae)

Black Blister BeetleBlack Blister BeetleEpicauta pensylvanicaCan irritate skinBlack Oil BeetleBlack Oil BeetleMeloe proscarabaeusViolet Oil BeetleViolet Oil BeetleMeloe violaceusMylabris variabilisMylabris variabilisMylabris variabilisBrassy Blister BeetleBrassy Blister BeetleLytta aeneaMaster Blister BeetleMaster Blister BeetleLytta magisterCan bite

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hycleus_oculatus

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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