Genus Aulicus

Classification · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Red and Black Beetle - Aulicus edwardsii

Aulicus edwardsii (Horn) - Aulicus edwardsii

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 Aulicus

Numbers

10 spp north of Mexico (1)

Size

Range from 4mm - 20mm.

7.0 mm to 20.0 mm (1)

Range

Southcentral and western United States (1)

Habitat

Aulicus beetles are very active on flowers, foliage of shrubs and trees, or found scurrying on the soil surface. (1)

Season

Most spp of Aulicus are very active during the oviposition period of grasshoppers (1)

Food

Adults feed on caterpillars of Noctuidae whereas the larvae feed on the egg masses of lubber grasshppers. (1)

Life Cycle

"The genus has an interesting biology. Adults lay their eggs on grasshopper ootheca for larvae to feed on grasshopper embryos."

-Weston Opitz, personal communication

Print References

Mawdsley, J.R. 2002. Cladistic analysis of the Nearctic checkered beetle genus Aulicus Spinola (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 109: 337-343.

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 7 September, 2006 - 9:07pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 28 January, 2009 - 8:10pm

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