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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 · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Internet References
yellow-orange/black clerid - Cymatodera 22mm clerid! - Cymatodera smaller giant clerid - Cymatodera Black base clerid - Cymatodera Clerid - Cymatodera undulata Cymatodera sp - Cymatodera giant clerid - Cymatodera Cleridae with elongated neck? - 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
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
Last updated 17 March, 2005 - 9:38pm

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