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Tribe Chauliognathini

? - Chauliognathus marginatus Margined Leatherwing - Chauliognathus marginatus Mating pair, C. omissus? - Chauliognathus omissus - male - female Flower Longhorn Beetle? - Chauliognathus misellus Chauliognathus lewisi? - Chauliognathus lewisi #165 - Chauliognathus pensylvanicus Soldier beetle - Chauliognathus marginatus Cantharidae, Goldenrod Soldier Beetles, dorsal - Chauliognathus pensylvanicus - male - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Elateroidea
Family Cantharidae (Soldier Beetles)
Subfamily Chauliognathinae
Tribe Chauliognathini
Numbers
21 spp. in 2 genera in our area, hundreds of spp. total(1)
Identification
New World, Australia & New Guinea(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Zoogeography and systematics of North and Central American Chauliognathini (Coleoptera: Chauliognathidae)
Miskimen G.W. 1966. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Florida. 162 pp.