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This article is about the Blister beetle genus Oenas. For the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, see Unas.

Oenas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Meloidae
Subfamily:
Meloinae
Tribe:
Lyttini
Genus:
Oenas

Latreille, 1802
Type species
Meloe afer
Linnaeus, 1767
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Oenas is a genus of blister beetle related to the well-known Lytta vesicatoria (a.k.a. "Spanish Fly"). The genus is Mediterranean in its distribution (from Morocco & Spain, east to Caucasus, Palestine & Iran).


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