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Species Enoclerus ichneumoneus - Orange-banded 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 Clerinae
Genus Enoclerus
Species ichneumoneus (Orange-banded Checkered Beetle)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
knabi Wolcott(1)
Explanation of Names
Enoclerus ichneumoneus (Fabricius 1776)
Size
8-11 mm(2)
Identification
A very wide orangish-brown band across the middle of the elytra and an elongate scutellum(2)
Range
ON-FL to WI-UT-CA(1)
Food
Adults hunt for wood-boring insects; larvae prey on beetle larvae.(3)
Life Cycle
Lays eggs on the cracks of bark infested with wood-boring insects.(3)
Works Cited
1.The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of Florida.
Leavengood, Jr., J.M. 2008. University of Florida, Gainesville. 206 pp.
2.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.
3.The Lives of Beetles: A Natural History of Coleoptera
Arthur V. Evans. 2023. Princeton University Press.