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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Clerinae » Placopterus

Genus Placopterus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited
Placopterus thoracicus Placopterus thoracicus (Olivier) - Placopterus thoracicus Clerid - Placopterus thoracicus Placopterus thoracicus ? - Placopterus thoracicus Coleoptera. Cleridae. - Placopterus thoracicus Placopterus thoracicus Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Placopterus thoracicus P. thoracicus - Placopterus thoracicus
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 Placopterus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in (1)
Explanation of Names
Placopterus Wolcott 1910
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, 5 total(1)(2)
Size
5‒8 mm(1)
Range
e NA, QC‒MB to Nicaragua(1)
Life Cycle
Associated w/bark beetles and borers in branches of deciduous trees(3)
Print References
Wolcott, A.B. (1910) Notes on some Cleridae of Middle and North America, with descriptions of new species. Field Museum of Natural History 7(10): 339-401.
Works Cited
1.Revision of the checkered beetle genus Placopterus Wolcott (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)
Opitz W. 2011. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 113: 137‒153.
2.BioLib.cz
3.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 27 September, 2006 - 10:30am
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 27 March, 2024 - 12:54pm

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