lytta

It is now named Lytta vesicatioria and belongs to another family, Meloidae.

Instead, there is a thickened area along the plica mediana or lytta which has a hook-shaped structure on the end.

The Spanish fly is an emerald-green beetle in the family Meloidae, Lytta vesicatoria.

A rigid structure called the plica mediana or lytta runs from the front to the back, down the center of the sublingua to give it support.

Oenas is a genus of blister beetle related to the well-known Lytta vesicatoria (a.k.a. "Spanish Fly").

In Greek mythology, Lyssa (called Lytta by the Athenians) was the spirit of mad rage, frenzy and rabies in animals.

The first family, to the which Lytta vesicatoria belongs in the Lytta genus, is rich of several thousands of species)

Lytta vesicatoria is sometimes incorrectly called Cantharis vesicatoria, but the genus Cantharis is in an unrelated family, Cantharidae.

In the species that have cartilage in the sublingua or lytta, that cartilage is not derived from the hyoid bone or hyoid arch (the bone and cartilage that supports the tongue).

Cantharidin is used medically to remove warts and is collected for this purpose from species of the genera Mylabris and Lytta, especially Lytta vesicatoria, better known as "Spanish fly".

An example of studies of this type is Richard B. Selander's Bionomics, Systematics and Phylogeny of Lytta, a Genus of Blister Beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae), Illinois Biological Monographs: number 28, 1960.

Down the middle of the sublingua is a thick strengthening rod called the plica mediana or lytta, which connects the sublingua to the underside of the tongue, and is part of the lingual septum (septum of the tongue).

The misapplication of the name Cantharis to the spanish fly was rejected by Johan Christian Fabricius in his Systema entomologiae in 1775, where he reclassified the spanish fly into the new genus Lytta, but continued throughout the 19th century.