Species Cymatodera bicolor

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Works Cited

Cleridae - cymatodera bicolor? - Checkered beetle - Cymatodera bicolor

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 Tillinae

Genus Cymatodera

Species bicolor (Cymatodera bicolor)

Explanation of Names

Cymatodera bicolor (Say 1825)

Size

10 mm(1)

Range

e. NA to Rockies (NS-ON-ND-WY to FL-AZ) / Mex. - Map (2)(3), mostly ne N. Amer.

Habitat

has been collected from juniper, flowering dogwood, spice bush, pig-nut hickory, birch and sycamore(1)

Season

mostly: May-July in the north (BG data), Apr-Aug in FL(1)

Works Cited

1.	The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of Florida. Leavengood, Jr., J.M. 2008. University of Florida, Gainesville. 206 pp.

2.	A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera... Burke A.F., Leavengood J.M., Zolnerowich G. 2015. Zootaxa 4059: 1‒39.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by tom murray on 3 June, 2007 - 4:06pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 October, 2021 - 11:35am

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