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Tribe Chauliognathini

Goldenrod Leather-wing - Chauliognathus pensylvanicus Cantharid 1 - Chauliognathus limbicollis Soldier Beetle - Chauliognathus marginatus soldier beetle - Chauliognathus pensylvanicus black & orange bug on a Slender Gaillardia - Chauliognathus omissus Goldenrod Soldier Beetle - Chauliognathus pensylvanicus Goldenrod Soldier Beetle -(iNaturalist) - Chauliognathus pensylvanicus Soldier Beetle - Chauliognathus marginatus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Elateroidea
Family Cantharidae (Soldier Beetles)
Subfamily Chauliognathinae
Tribe Chauliognathini
Numbers
21 spp. in 2 genera in our area, hundreds of spp. total(1)
Identification
New World, Australia & New Guinea(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Zoogeography and systematics of North and Central American Chauliognathini (Coleoptera: Chauliognathidae)
Miskimen G.W. 1966. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Florida. 162 pp.
Contributed by v belov on 16 January, 2015 - 12:05am

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