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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Cleroidea) » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Enopliinae » Pelonides

Genus Pelonides

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Works Cited
4-spotted Checkered Beetle - Pelonides quadripunctata - female Melyrid - Pelonides humeralis Beetle - Pelonides quadripunctata bug, elongated, black spots, feathery branched antennae - Pelonides quadrinotata small red beetle - Pelonides quadrinotata Pelonides quadrinotata - Pelonides quadrinotata red beetle - Pelonides quadripunctata Pelonides quadripunctata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea (Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles)
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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