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For the United States & Canada

Genus Trichodes

Trichodes nuttalli Checkered Beetle - Trichodes Trichodes simulator? - Trichodes simulator GA July Checkered Beetle - Trichodes apivorus Trichodes nuttalli(?) - Trichodes nuttalli Male, Trichodes peninsularis horni? - Trichodes peninsularis - male Beetle red with black bands on parsley - Trichodes apivorus 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.