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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Trichodes
Genus
Trichodes
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)
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1
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Explanation of Names
Trichodes
Herbst
1792
Numbers
10 spp. in our area
(
2
)
, >60 total
Identification
key to spp. in West (2014)
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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