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Tribe Chauliognathini

Soldier beetle - Chauliognathus marginatus Soldier Beetle - Chauliognathus marginatus A lightning bug? - Chauliognathus marginatus Chauliognathus obscurus? - Chauliognathus obscurus - male Margined Leatherwing - Chauliognathus marginatus Chauliognathus lewisi Mating bugs on Coreopsis - Chauliognathus pensylvanicus - male - female Margined Leatherwing Beetle at Idylwild WMA, MD - Chauliognathus marginatus
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.