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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Blister Beetles (Oedemeridae) » Oedemerinae » Asclerini » Asclera » Asclera puncticollis

Species Asclera puncticollis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Works Cited

Beetle on Corneliancherry Dogwood - Asclera puncticollis

Asclera puncticollis ? - Asclera puncticollis - male - female

Soldier Beetle of some sort - Asclera puncticollis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Oedemeridae (False Blister Beetles)

Subfamily Oedemerinae

Tribe Asclerini

Genus Asclera

Species puncticollis (Asclera puncticollis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Asclera puncticollis (Say)

Orig. Comb: Ischnomera puncticollis Say, 1823 [still in use: (1) erroneously??]

Explanation of Names

puncticollis = 'dotted neck/pronotum'

Size

5.0-9.6 mm(2)(3)

Identification

Claws toothed at base; pronotum with 3 deep impressions arranged in a triangle and with a large central dark spot(4)

Det. M. A. Quinn, 2014

Range

e. NA to CA (NS-FL to SK-CO-CA) - Map (5)(3)(6)

Habitat

forests; adults on flowers(7)(8)(4)

Season

mostly Mar-Jun (BG data)

Works Cited

1.	iNaturalist

2.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

3.	Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.

4.	Arnett R.H., Jr. (2000-2005) False blister beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Oedemeridae)

5.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

6.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

7.	Insect visitors of Illinois wildflowers

8.	New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Stenotrachelidae, Oedemeridae, Meloidae, Myceteridae, Boridae, Pythidae... Webster R.P., Sweeney J.D., Demerchant I. 2012. Zookeys 179: 279-307.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 13 February, 2009 - 12:36am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 17 October, 2022 - 10:55am

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