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Genus Neorthopleura

Checkered Beetle? - Neorthopleura thoracica Neorthopleura texana (Bland) - Neorthopleura texana Beetle - Neorthopleura Checkered Beetle - Neorthopleura Neorthopleura thoracica? - Neorthopleura thoracica Beetle ID - Neorthopleura thoracica Neorthopleura sp.? - Neorthopleura Neorthopleura thoracica? - Neorthopleura thoracica
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea (Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles)
Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)
Subfamily Orthopleurinae
Genus Neorthopleura
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Orthopleura auct.
Explanation of Names
Neorthopleura Barr 1976
Numbers
3 spp. in our area, 27 total(1)
N. binotata (Gorham) AZ to Guatemala
N. texana (Bland) FL-AZ & Mexico
N. thoracica (Say) e. NA
Size
our spp. 3-15 mm(2)
Identification
Dark red pronotum, dark brown elytra(2)
antennomeres entirely dark in N. thoracica, funicular segments paler in N. texana. --John Leavengood
Range
New World, mostly neotropical; in our area,
Works Cited
1.Revision of the New World genus Neorthopleura Barr (Coleoptera: Cleridae)
Opitz W. 2013. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (N.S.), 49: 1-35.
2.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.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 11 June, 2008 - 2:25am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 29 November, 2016 - 7:25pm

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