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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Tillinae » Cymatodera

Genus Cymatodera

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
yellow-orange/black clerid - Cymatodera puncticollis mitey clerid - Cymatodera Cymatodera balteata LeConte - Cymatodera balteata Cymatodera cymatodera - Cymatodera xavierae Cymatodera tricolor? - Cymatodera tricolor Cymatodera aegra-complex? - Cymatodera aegra-complex Arizona Beetle for ID - Cymatodera
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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