Family Cleridae - Checkered Beetles
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)
Other Common Names Checkered Flower Beetles (1)Synonyms and other taxonomic changes family classification has been recently revised, with multiple new subfamilies erected (2) (the arrangement still followed here), although only 5 subfamilies are reconized in (3)Explanation of Names Cleridae Latreille 1802 Numbers almost 300 spp. in 36 genera in our area (4), 50 in Canada (5); >3,600 spp. in >330 genera of 12 subfamilies worldwide (2)
Nearctic fauna catalogued in (6)
Overview of our fauna classification adapted from(2); * –taxa not yet in the guide]
Family CLERIDAE
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Family CLERIDAE
Subfamily TILLINAE Fischer von Waldheim 1813
Subfamily HYDNOCERINAE Spinola 1844
__Tribe Hydnocerini Spinola 1844
Subfamily CLERINAE Latreille 1802
Subfamily KORYNETINAE Laporte 1836 Identification Body usually long and narrow, often colorful, covered with bristly hairs; head usually wider than pronotum; pronotum sybcylindrical and narrower than elytra; antennae vary considerably and are of great diagnostic value within the group
online sources for visual identification: (8)(9)(10)(11)Range worldwide, much more diverse in warmer climes; in our area more diverse in the south (4)Food insects, esp. wood- and cone-borers; some adults feed on pollen; a few species are scavengers (4)
Enoclerus, Phyllobaenus, Isohydnocera, Cymatodera, and Placopterus spp. have been recorded as gall infiltrators. --J.M. Leavengood Works Cited | 1. | A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America
Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence. 1961. Row, Peterson, and Company. | |
| 3. | Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)
Gimmel M.L., Bocakova M., Gunter N.L., Leschen R.A.B. 2019. Sys. Entomol. 44: 527-558. | |
| 4. | 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. |  |
| 7. | Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972. | |
| 11. | The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of Florida.
Leavengood, Jr., J.M. 2008. University of Florida, Gainesville. 206 pp. | |
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm Additional contributions by Mike Boone, cotinis, Bug Eric, Phillip Harpootlian, Jeff Gruber, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Tim Moyer, ceiseman, v belov, onegunahLast updated 7 November, 2022 - 6:12pm |
