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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Tillinae » Cymatodera » Inornate Checkered Beetle (Cymatodera inornata)
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narrow-necked beetle - Cymatodera inornata
Copyright © 2005 Robin McLeod

narrow-necked beetle - Cymatodera inornata
Ailsa Craig, Ontario, Canada
July 24, 2004
Size: about 7 mm
Came to porch light. An odd-looking individual with "legs growing out of its neck" - I'm stumped.
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Contributed by Robin McLeod on 16 March, 2005 - 7:27am
Last updated 17 March, 2005 - 9:10pm

Cymatodera or Lecontella
Robin-

This is a checkered beetle (Cleridae), but I can't be sure of the genus. This critter resembles two very similar genera, Cymatodera and Lecontella but I can't place it for sure from the picture. I also was unable to make an inference given the locality- maybe you have some insight as to local faunal lists? If I had to guess, I'd go with the former name.

cheers,

zack
… Zack Falin, 16 March, 2005 - 9:08am login or register to post comments

 
Cymatodera
Thanks Zack. I don't know of any local lists but the Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska (1) has PDF docs for each family, giving species distribution by province/territory. There's no Lecontella species in Canada, and only 3 Cymatodera species in Ontario (bicolor, inornata, undulata). If Cedar Creek's image of C. undulata is correctly IDed, my specimen looks different than that, and mine has no reddish-yellow anterior and posterior margin on the pronotum, as described for C. bicolor on this page, so that leaves only C. inornata.
… Robin McLeod, 17 March, 2005 - 9:35am login or register to post comments

 
agreed
Assuming this isn't a new record for Ontario (a reasonably safe assumption, but not out of the question), I would agree that what you've got is C. inornata. We've got specimens of all three here and both of the other two have distinct bicolorous patterns clearly not visible in your photo.

Hmm. Clearly not visible- what an oxymoron!

Regardless, neat beetle.

cheers,

zack
… Zack Falin, 17 March, 2005 - 12:42pm login or register to post comments

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