Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Trichodes

Red-blue Checkered Beetle - Trichodes nutalli A checkered beetle among all those wasps- - Trichodes peninsularis Ornate Checkered Beetle - Trichodes ornatus Trichodes apivorus Black and yellow beetle - Trichodes ornatus Checkered Beetle - Trichodes peninsularis Trichodes oresterus Wolcott - Trichodes oresterus ornate checkered beetle - Trichodes ornatus - male - female
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 Trichodes
Numbers
Arnett counts ten species. (1)

Trichodes references, life history
Nearctica.com lists 10 species in genus for North America.

See T. apivorus account for life history of genus, from Milne.
References:
Dillon, p. 279, ill. T. nutalli (1)
Papp, p. 95, ill. T. nutalli, T. ornatus (2)
Arnett, pp. 448-449 describes T. nuttalli, ornatus, peninsularis (3)
Milne, p. 577, fig. 142, life history and photo of T. nutalli (1)
Arnett, accounts #135 and 136, T. ornatus, T. peninsularis

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina