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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Cleroidea) » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae)

Family Cleridae - Checkered Beetles

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Beautiful and beetlecidal - Enoclerus muttkowskii Checkered Beetle - Enoclerus ichneumoneus Monophylla californica - female Priocera castanea Inornate Checkered Beetle - Cymatodera inornata Cregya oculata - Cregya oculata Chapparal Clerid - Loedelia maculicollis Small beetle - Necrobia rufipes
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Cleroidea (Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles)
Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)
Numbers
Approx. 261 species in 37 genera

Family CLERIDAE Latreille, 1804
Subfamily THANOCLERINAE Chapin, 1924
Genus Thaneroclerus Chapin, 1924
Genus Zenodosus Wolcott, 1910
Genus Ababa Casey, 1897

Subfamily TILLINAE Leach, 1815
Genus Bostrichoclerus Van Dyke, 1938
Genus Monophylla Spinola, 1841
Genus Callotillus Wolcott, 1911
Genus Areodontia Barr, 1952
Genus Lecontella Wolcott & Chapin, 1918
Genus Cymatodera Gray in Griffith, 1832
Genus Cymatoderella Barr, 1962
Genus Bogcia Barr, 1978

Subfamily HYDNOCERINAE Spinola, 1844
Genus Phyllobaenus Dejean, 1837
Genus Isohydnocera Chapin, 1917
Genus Wolcottia Chapin, 1917

Subfamily CLERINAE Latreille, 1804
Genus Priocera Kirby, 1818
Genus Perilypus Spinola, 1841
Genus Opilo Latreille, 1804
Genus Trichodes Herbst in Jablonsky, 1792
Genus Aulicus Spinola, 1841
Genus Thanasimus Latreille, 1806
Genus Enoclerus Gahan, 1910
Genus Placopterus Wolcott, 1910

Subfamily EPIPHLOEINAE Kuwert, 1893
Genus Madoniella Pic, 1935 (=Phlogistosternus Wolcott, 1944)
Genus Pyticeroides Kuwert, 1894 (=Neichnea Wolcott & Chapin, 1918)
Genus Ichnea Laporte, 1836

Subfamily ENOPLIINAE Gistel, 1856
Genus Chariessa Perty in Spix & Martius, 1830
Genus Pelonium Spinola, 1844
Genus Cregya LeConte, 1861
Genus Boschella Barr, 1980
Genus Parapelonides Barr, 1980
Genus Pelonides Kuwert, 1894
Genus Neorthopleura Barr, 1976

Subfamily TARSOSTENINAE Jacquelin du Val, 1860
Genus Paratillus Gorham 1876
Genus Tarsostenus Spinola, 1844

Subfamily KORYNETINAE Laporte, 1836
Genus Lebasiella Spinola, 1844
Genus Loedelia Lucas, 1918
Genus Necrobia Olivier, 1795
Identification
Body covered with bristly hairs. Shape of body usually long and narrow. Head usually wider than pronotum. Pronotum nearly cylindrical and narrower than elytra. Beetle often marked with red, orange, yellow, or blue. Antennae are clubbed, sawtooth, or threadlike. (1)
Range
Throughout North America; most in southwest. (1)
Food
Adults typically feed on adult bark beetles, while some feed on pollen. Larvae eat eggs, larvae, and adult wood-boring beetles. A few species are scavengers. (1)
Print References
Wolcott, A.B. 1947. Catalogue of North American beetles of the family Cleridae. Fieldiana: Zoology, 32(2): 63–105. Full PDF
American Beetles, Vol. 2, Chapter 73 (2)
White, p. 208 (1)
Internet References
A guide to the Cleridae of Atlantic Canada - photos and descriptions of the 15 species known to occur there.
Photographs of North American Cleridae associated with conifers - name says it all - about 40 species
Photographs of Enoclerus and related genera
Works Cited
1.Peterson Field Guides: Beetles
By Richard E. White
2.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, cotinis, Bug Eric, Phillip Harpootlian, Jeff Gruber, Brad Barnd, Mike Quinn, Tim Moyer
Last updated 31 August, 2009 - 11:09am

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