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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) » Clerinae » Trichodes » Red-blue Checkered Beetle (Trichodes nuttalli)

Species Trichodes nuttalli - Red-blue Checkered Beetle

Classification · Other Common Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
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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)
Subfamily Clerinae
Genus Trichodes
Species nuttalli (Red-blue Checkered Beetle)
Other Common Names
Nuttall's Shaggy Beetle
Size
8-11mm (1)
Identification
Base color is dark blue, purple or greenish blue; elytra darker with reddish to yellowish markings(1)
Range
e. NA south to VA/TN; CO(1)(2)
Habitat
Found on flowers of wild rose, dandelion, daisy, yarrow, etc.(2)
Food
bee/wasp larvae in the nests
See Also
Trichodes apivorus
Print References
Dillon and Dillon, p. 279, plat 29 (3)
Works Cited
1.How to Know the Beetles
By Ross H. Arnett, N. M. Downie, H. E. Jaques
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
3.A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America
By Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 14 April, 2004 - 10:09pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Hartmut Wisch, v belov
Last updated 27 April, 2012 - 2:01pm

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