Genus Pelonides

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Works Cited

Small black and red beetle - Pelonides quadripunctata

bug, elongated, black spots, feathery branched antennae - Pelonides quadrinotata

Pelonides quadrinotata (Haldeman) - Pelonides quadrinotata - female

Pelonides quadrinotata (Haldeman) - Pelonides quadrinotata - male

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 Enopliinae

Genus Pelonides

Explanation of Names

Pelonides Kuwert 1894

Numbers

4 spp. in our area, 6 total(1)

Size

5–10 mm(1)

Range

e. US to AZ / Mex. to Honduras(1)(BG data)

Food

lignicolous and anthophilous prey species(1)

Works Cited

1.	Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Pelonides Kuwert (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Enopliinae) Opitz W. 2015. Can. Entomol. 147: 501‒526.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 18 April, 2007 - 4:34pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 19 March, 2017 - 11:18am

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