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Genus Phyllobaenus

Checkered Beetle - Phyllobaenus Phyllobaenus subfasciatus? - Phyllobaenus Clerid - Phyllobaenus Spotted beetle on white - Phyllobaenus pallipennis P subfasciatus? - Phyllobaenus subfasciatus Phyllobaenus humeralis Phyllobaenus? - Phyllobaenus wickhami Beetle - Phyllobaenus
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 Hydnocerinae
Genus Phyllobaenus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
taxonomy is a mess
Explanation of Names
Phyllobaenus Dejean 1837
Greek 'leaf-walker'
Numbers
>50 spp. in our area
Size
3‒5 mm
Range
across NA
See Also
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(1)
Works Cited
1.Nomenclatural and distributional notes regarding some North American spp. of Phyllobaenus (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Hydnocerinae).
Leavengood Jr., J.M. 2014. Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 13(59): 471-480.