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Subfamily Tillinae

Cymatodera sirpata Horn - Cymatodera sirpata Cymatodera undulata? - Cymatodera undulata Monophylla terminata (Say) - Monophylla terminata - male Beetle - Cymatodera  Cleridae - Cymatodera aegra-complex Arizona Beetle for ID - Lecontella Genus Cymatodera? - Cymatodera Cymatodera (2) - 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)