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Species Enoclerus rosmarus

Enoclerus rosmarus? - Enoclerus rosmarus

Checkered Beetle - Enoclerus? - Enoclerus rosmarus

Tiny Orange and Black - Enoclerus rosmarus

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 Clerinae

Genus Enoclerus

Species rosmarus (Enoclerus rosmarus)

Explanation of Names

Enoclerus rosmarus (Say 1823)

Size

3.5‒7.0 mm(1)

Identification

In FL, red legs and thoracic sternites and a black abdomen, basal third of the elytra is reddish(1)

- spmn from MD

Range

e. US (ME‒FL to NE‒TX) to C. America(2)

(pre-1950 distributions recorded for "E. rosmarus" refer to E. rosmarus + angustus(1)

Habitat

common and abundant on flowers and weeds in May‒Jul (Knull 1951)

Remarks

key to 4 similar spp. adapted from (1)

1. Abdomen red..................................................2

Abdomen black...............................................3

2. Elytra with a pale, often distinctly arched fascia at about the middle, followed by a much broader black fascia occupying ¼ of the elytral length ......nigripes

Elytra with a pale fascia just behind the middle, the fascia broader marginally, narrowing towards the middle as the elytra meet, followed by a narrower black fascia...angustus

3. Mid-elytral pale fascia anteriorly bordered by a black, somewhat incomplete fascia...rosmarus

Mid-elytral pale fascia not anteriorly bordered...nigrifrons

Works Cited

1.	The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of Florida. Leavengood, Jr., J.M. 2008. University of Florida, Gainesville. 206 pp.

2.	Catalogue of North American beetles of the family Cleridae Wolcott A.B. 1947. Fieldiana: Zoology 32: 63–105.

Contributed by tom murray on 5 July, 2005 - 8:53pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 21 September, 2023 - 11:53pm

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