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

Species Enoclerus nigripes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited

Checkered Beetles - Enoclerus nigripes - male - female

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 nigripes (Enoclerus nigripes)

Explanation of Names

Enoclerus nigripes (Say 1823)

nigripes = 'black-legged'

Size

5-7 mm(1)

Range

e. & so. NA (NS-SK to FL-OK-CA & Mexico)(2)(1) - one of the most commonly encountered clerids(3), but only a single spmn known from FL(1)

Habitat

recorded on spruce, American elm, white pine, juniper, butternut, ash, mulberry, wild cherry(1)

Season

Apr-Jul in OH (Knull 1951)

Remarks

Key to similar spp. in FL(1)

3. Abdomen red..................................................4

Abdomen black...............................................5

4. Elytra with a pale, often distinctly arched fascia at about the middle, followed by a much broader black fascia occupying one-fourth of the elytral length ....................E. nigripes (Fig. 2-9)

Elytra with a pale fascia just behind the middle, the fascia broader marginally, narrowing towards the middle as the elytra meet, followed by a narrower black fascia ..........E. angustus (Fig. 2-1)

5. Mid-elytral pale fascia anteriorly bordered by a black, somewhat incomplete fascia............E. rosmarus (Fig. 2-11)

Mid-elytral pale fascia not bordered anteriorly by a fascia....................................................En. nigrifrons (Fig. 2-7)

See Also

E. analis (widespread) and E. rosmarus (e. US)

E. nigripes is most similar to E. rosmarus, which has a black abdomen and red legs; E. angustus and E. lunatus also share similarities with E. nigripes(1)

Works Cited

1.	The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of Florida. Leavengood, Jr., J.M. 2008. University of Florida, Gainesville. 206 pp.

2.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

3.	A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence. 1961. Row, Peterson, and Company.

Contributed by tom murray on 27 September, 2006 - 10:56pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 28 July, 2022 - 4:51pm

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