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Family Thanerocleridae

red clerid - Zenodosus sanguineus Checkered Beetle - Zenodosus sanguineus Cleridae, lateral - Zenodosus sanguineus Zenodosus sanguineus Beetle - Zenodosus sanguineus Thaneroclerus buquet (Lefebvre) - Thaneroclerus buquet Zenodosus sanguineus Zenodosus sanguineus
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 Thanerocleridae
Explanation of Names
Thanerocleridae Chapin 1921
Numbers
2 subfamilies, with 2 spp. (incl. one adventive) in 2 genera in our area(1) and 10 genera total(2)
Size
worldwide, 3–7 mm(3)
Range
nearly worldwide, primarily palaeotropical; mostly absent from Europe and temperate S America;(2)(3)
Habitat
Most members of the subfamily are xylophilous (incl. Zenodosus, common under bark infested with bark beetles)(3)
Food
diurnal predators of other insects; Thaneroclerus spp. prey on insects that infest stored products(3)
Print References
Kolibáč J. (1992) Revision of Thanerocleridae n. stat. (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 65: 303-340. NB: not in the same circumscription as adopted in (2)
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.Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)
Gimmel M.L., Bocakova M., Gunter N.L., Leschen R.A.B. 2019. Sys. Entomol. 44: 527-558.
3.Classification, natural history, phylogeny, and subfamily composition of the Cleridae and generic content of the subfamilies
Opitz W. 2010. Entomologica Basiliensia et Collections Frey 32: 31–128.