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

Subfamily Tillinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Clerid - Cymatodera undulata (Say) - Cymatodera undulata brown beetle - Cymatodera Cleridae - Cymatodera Family? - Cymatodera bicolor Arizona Beetle for ID - Cymatodera Cleridae - Cymatodera Coleoptera - Cymatodera probably undulata or close… - Cymatodera
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised (partly) in (1)
Explanation of Names
Tillinae Fischer von Waldheim 1813
Numbers
the second largest clerid subfamily, with ~80 spp. in 7 genera in our area(2), ~550 spp. in ~75 genera total(3)(4)
Size
worldwide, 3–25 mm(3)
Identification
key to New World genera in (2)
Range
worldwide, but more diverse in temperate NA and in the epiequatorial Neotropics (also throughout the Paleotropics, esp. Madagascar)(3)
Food
mostly lignicolous insects(3)
Works Cited
1.A taxonomic revision of the subfamily Tillinae Leach sensu lato (Coleoptera, Cleridae) in the New World
Burke A.F., Zolnerowich G. 2017. ZooKeys 179: 75‒157.
2.A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera...
Burke A.F., Leavengood J.M., Zolnerowich G. 2015. Zootaxa 4059: 1‒39.
3.Classification, natural history, phylogeny, and subfamily composition of the Cleridae and generic content of the subfamilies
Opitz W. 2010. Entomologica Basiliensia et Collections Frey 32: 31–128.
4.BioLib.cz
Contributed by v belov on 9 April, 2010 - 4:38am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 25 December, 2023 - 10:41pm

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