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Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

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Genus Trichodes

Representative Images

Lassen Beetle 4 - Trichodes ornatus Plum Canyon - Trichodes ornatus Trichodes ornatus Beetle species? - Trichodes ornatus Trichodes peninsularis horni - Trichodes peninsularis Trichodes ornatus Trichodes nuttalli(?) - Trichodes nuttalli Trichodes? - Trichodes ornatus

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 Trichodes

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

revised in Foster (1976)(1)

Explanation of Names

Trichodes Herbst 1792

Numbers

10 spp. in our area(2), >60 total

Identification

key to spp. in West (2014)(3)

Range

holarctic & Afrotropical (most diverse in the Mediterranean & C Asia), widespread in NA, though less common in e. US

Works Cited

1.Revision of North American Trichodes (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Cleridae).
Foster, D.E. 1976. Texas Tech University Special Publications No. 11. 86 p.
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.Insects of Western North America 8 The Checkered Beetle Genus Trichodes Herbst (Coleoptera: Cleridae): a pictorial key to North
West, Daniel R. 2014. Colorado State University.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 14 April, 2004 - 10:08pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 5 May, 2024 - 10:38am

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