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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Clerinae » Enoclerus » Handsome Yucca Beetle (Enoclerus spinolae)

Species Enoclerus spinolae - Handsome Yucca Beetle

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Cleridae, Handsome Yucca Beetle - Enoclerus spinolae

Enoclerus spinolae (LeConte) - Enoclerus spinolae

Handsome Yucca Beetle_Enoclerus spinolae - Enoclerus spinolae

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cleroidea

Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)

Subfamily Clerinae

Genus Enoclerus

Species spinolae (Handsome Yucca Beetle)

Other Common Names

Handsome Yucca Beetle

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

resurrected as species by Barr & Rifkind (2009) (see details); sometimes misspelled spinolai

Explanation of Names

Enoclerus spinolae (LeConte 1853)

named after Massimiliano Spinola (1780-1857), the author of the "beautifully prepared and fully illustrated account of the world fauna of [Cleridae]."(1)

Identification

variable

Range

sw US (s. CA to c. TX to n. NE) / n. Mex. - Map (1)(2), mostly sw. Great Plains

Habitat

Common on Yucca glauca, Asclepias, and sotol (Dasylirion, Liliaceae)

Season

May-Aug (2)

Remarks

Type Locality: Texas

Print References

Barr W.F., Rifkind J. (2009) Two new and one resurrected species of Enoclerus Gahan (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) from the western United States. Zootaxa 2168: 57-62. (Abstract)

LeConte, J.L. 1853. Description of twenty new species of Coleoptera inhabiting the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 6: 226-235.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

iNaturalist (2)

Works Cited

1.	Catalogue of North American beetles of the family Cleridae Wolcott A.B. 1947. Fieldiana: Zoology 32: 63–105.

2.	iNaturalist

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 2 May, 2007 - 7:48pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, David Ferguson, v belov
Last updated 23 September, 2022 - 6:38pm

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