Species Cymatodera inornata - Inornate Checkered Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · See Also · Works Cited

Cymatodera inornata (Say) - Cymatodera inornata

Cymatodera inornata? - Cymatodera inornata

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 inornata (Inornate Checkered Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Cymatodera inornata (Say 1835)

Size

7-11 mm(1)

Range

e NA (QC-ON-ND to FL-TX)(2)

See Also

C. bicolor (e. US) is occasionally nearly all dark (comment here)

Works Cited

1.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

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.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 17 March, 2005 - 8:35pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 17 January, 2018 - 1:55pm

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