Genus Cymatodera

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

dark red pronotum clerid - Cymatodera - female

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

Explanation of Names

Cymatodera Gray 1832

Numbers

66 spp. in our area(1), ~130 described spp. total(2)

Size

5-10 mm

Identification

extremely difficult; genus in need of revision

Range

throughout US and parts of so. Canada to S. America; by far most diverse in Mexico(1)

Food

adults are predaceous, feeding (in part) on the larvae of gall wasps, fruit tree lepidoptera, and wood-boring beetles

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	A taxonomic revision of the subfamily Tillinae Leach sensu lato (Coleoptera, Cleridae) in the New World Burke A.F., Zolnerowich G. 2017. ZooKeys 179: 75-157.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 17 March, 2005 - 8:34pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 4 September, 2021 - 8:25pm

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