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Genus Pedilus

Fire-colored Beetle - Pedilus elegans - male Another red-necked beetle - Pedilus lugubris - male Fire-colored Beetle - Pedilus lugubris - female Hitchhiker on American oil beetle - Pedilus terminalis - male Black beetle - Pedilus lugubris Coleoptera. - Pedilus lugubris - male beetle #2 – genus Pedilus? - Pedilus lugubris beetle a - Pedilus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Pyrochroidae (Fire-Colored Beetles)
Subfamily Pedilinae
Genus Pedilus
Explanation of Names
Pedilus Fischer von Waldheim 1822
Numbers
30 spp. in our area(1), ~50 total(2)
Identification
Key to species in (3); males often have modified elytral tips/declivity
Range
in NA, mostly w.US, also the northeast(1); eastern spp.: P. canaliculatus, cyanipennis, elegans, impressus, labiatus, lugubris, terminalis; the ranges of P. joanae and P. lewisi are continental.
Habitat
on flowers/vegetation in damp areas(4)
Season
adults active in spring(4)
Remarks
Not yet in guide:
P. alticolus Fall, 1915 [CA]
P. crotchii (Horn, 1874) [CA/OR]
P. cyanipennis Bland, 1864 [Appalachian]
P. dentatus Abdullah, 1964 [CA]
P. fenderi, granti, johnsonorum Young, manuscript names [CA all]
P. longilobus Fall, 1915 [CA/NV-WA]
P. monticolus (Horn, 1874) [CA/NV]
P. oregonus Fall, 1915 [BC-CA]
P. picipennis Fall, 1915 [CA/WA-ID/UT]
P. rusticus Abdullah, 1964 [CA]
P. serratus Fall, 1915 [CA]
P. vittatus (Horn, 1871) [CA-ID/UT]
See Also
cantharids in the Silinae may look similar
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.BioLib.cz
3.Bionomics, phylogeny and systematics of the North American species of Pedilus Fischer (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae).
Young, D.K. 1981. Thesis Univ. Michigan State. 1.
4.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.