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Species Cymatodera inornata - Inornate Checkered Beetle

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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 Tillinae
Genus Cymatodera
Species inornata (Inornate Checkered Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Cymatodera inornata (Say 1835)
Size
7-11 mm(1)
Range
e NA (QC-ON-ND to FL-TX) - Map (2)(3)
See Also
C. bicolor (e. US) is occasionally nearly all dark (comment here)
Works Cited
1.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
2.A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera...
Burke A.F., Leavengood J.M., Zolnerowich G. 2015. Zootaxa 4059: 1‒39.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)