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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Tillinae » Neocallotillus » Neocallotillus elegans

Species Neocallotillus elegans

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Neocallotillus elegans (Erichson) - Neocallotillus elegans

Callotillus vafer Wolcott - Neocallotillus elegans

Cool red ant-like beetle with swollen pronotum - Neocallotillus elegans

Clerid from Mesquite? - Neocallotillus elegans

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 Neocallotillus

Species elegans (Neocallotillus elegans)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Neocallotillus elegans (Erichson)

Orig. Comb: Tillus elegans Erichson 1847

The subspecies Callotillus elegans vafer Wolcott is synonymized with the nominal subspecies, Callotillus elegans elegans (Erichson), which is transferred to, and designated as the type species of Neocallotillus gen. n. as Neocallotillus elegans (Erichson, 1847), comb. n. (1)

Numbers

2 spp. n. of Mex. (1)

Size

~ 3 mm

Identification

Neocallotillus spp. are the only tillines of N. Amer. with the elytral surface adorned with a pale transverse, blister-like, swollen fascia. (2)

Range

sw US (s.CA-c.TX, UT-NV) to C. Amer. - Map (1)(3)

See Also

Neocallotillus eburneocinctus (Wolcott), endemic to southern Florida (1)

Print References

Burke, A.F., and G. Zolnerowich. 2016. Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Callotillus Wolcott (Cleridae, Tillinae), with the description of the new genus Neocallotillus, and an illustrated key of identification to species. ZooKeys 617: 65-89. (1)

Erichson, W.F. 1847. Conspectus Insectorum Coleopterorum quae in Republica Peruana observata sunt. Arch. Naturg., 13: 67-185.

Wolcott, A.B. 1921. North American predaceous beetles of the tribe Tillini in the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 59: 269-289.

Works Cited

1.	Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Callotillus Wolcott (Cleridae, Tillinae), with the description of the new genus ... Alan F Burke, Gregory Zolnerowich. 2016. ZooKeys 617: 65-89.

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.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 20 August, 2009 - 8:07am
Last updated 19 June, 2023 - 1:05pm

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