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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) » Cymatodera

Genus Cymatodera

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Internet References
yellow-orange/black clerid - Cymatodera smaller giant clerid - Cymatodera clerid - Cymatodera fuchsii Cymatodera inornata Clerid - Cymatodera undulata Cymatodera sirpata Horn - Cymatodera sirpata Cymatodera sp. - Cymatodera ID please - Cymatodera
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)
Genus Cymatodera
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cymatodera Gray 1832
Numbers
73 species in North America (nearctica.com)
5 species in Canada (canacoll.org, PDF doc)
Size
5-10 mm range
Range
throughout US and scattered parts of southern Canada
Food
adults are predaceous, feeding (in part) on the larvae of gall wasps, fruit tree lepidoptera, and wood-boring beetles
Internet References
pinned adult image of C. undulata (Insects of Cedar Creek, Minnesota)
adult illustration of C. bicolor and other info (Guide to the Cleridae of Atlantic Canada)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 17 March, 2005 - 8:34pm
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 28 August, 2009 - 8:43am

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