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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Tillinae » Cymatodera » Undulate Checkered Beetle (Cymatodera undulata)

Species Cymatodera undulata - Undulate Checkered Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited
Clerid - Cymatodera undulata (Say) - Cymatodera undulata Beetle - Cymatodera undulata BEETLE - found in my house - Cymatodera undulata Cymatodera undulata (Say) - Cymatodera undulata Undulate Checkered Beetle - Cymatodera undulata beetle - Cymatodera undulata Listrus? - Cymatodera undulata Beetle - Cymatodera undulata
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 Tillinae
Genus Cymatodera
Species undulata (Undulate Checkered Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Cymatodera undulata (Say 1825)
undulata = 'waved, wavy'
Size
9-12 mm(1)
Range
e US to AZ (NY-FL to MN-UT-AZ) & ON - Map (2)(3)
Habitat
on various trees/shrubs/vines infested with wood-boring beetles(1)(4)
Remarks
comes to lights
See Also
color pattern similar to that of C. wolcotti(4)
Works Cited
1.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
2.A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera...
Burke A.F., Leavengood J.M., Zolnerowich G. 2015. Zootaxa 4059: 1‒39.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of Florida.
Leavengood, Jr., J.M. 2008. University of Florida, Gainesville. 206 pp.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 13 September, 2005 - 10:04am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 24 October, 2021 - 11:43pm

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