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Species Wolcottia pedalis

Wolcottia pedalis (LeConte) - Wolcottia pedalis Checkered beetle - Wolcottia pedalis Wolcottia pedalis (LeConte) - Wolcottia pedalis Wolcottia pedalis Wolcottia pedalis (LeConte) - Wolcottia pedalis Cleridae - Wolcottia pedalis - Checkered beetle? - Wolcottia pedalis Cleridae - Wolcottia pedalis - Checkered beetle? - Wolcottia pedalis Cleridae - Wolcottia pedalis - Checkered beetle? - Wolcottia pedalis
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 Hydnocerinae
Genus Wolcottia
Species pedalis (Wolcottia pedalis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Wolcottia pedalis (LeConte)
Orig. Comb: Hydnocera pedalis LeConte, 1866
Numbers
2 spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Range
e. US to AZ (AZ-AL-NJ-WI) (2),(3),(BG data) (Not (yet) recorded in FL: (4))
Season
May-July (BG data)
Print References
LeConte, J.L. 1866. New species of North American Coleoptera. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1 (concluded). Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 6: 87-168.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Catalogue of North American beetles of the family Cleridae
Wolcott A.B. 1947. Fieldiana: Zoology 32: 63–105.
3.Brackenridge Field Laboratory, UT, Austin - Species Lists
4.The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of Florida.
Leavengood, Jr., J.M. 2008. University of Florida, Gainesville. 206 pp.