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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Tillinae » Cymatodera » Cymatodera vandykei
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Cymatodera? - Cymatodera vandykei
Copyright © 2010 Ken Schneider

Cymatodera? - Cymatodera vandykei
Andrew Molera State Park, Monterey County, California, USA
April 8, 2010
Size: 12 mm
My son and I found this beetle on the outside of a park building at night. Looks like a clerid? Maybe a Cymatodera sp?

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 9 April, 2010 - 11:12pm
Last updated 10 April, 2010 - 2:05pm

Thanks so much!
The first clerid I've ever found!
… Ken Schneider, 10 April, 2010 - 4:15pm login or register to post comments

 
gotta be kiddin me...
don't they come to lights around the house? i hardly ever leave my basement and don't chase insects, but see 3-4 spp. quite routinely under the patio light each summer
… v belov, 10 April, 2010 - 4:23pm login or register to post comments

 
No joke!
I live in an apartment complex in a fairly urban area. No backyard. I've tried leaving the balcony light on at night, but not much comes to visit... I do find some bugs on the exterior walls of the whole complex at night, mainly a few moths...
… Ken Schneider, 10 April, 2010 - 11:51pm login or register to post comments

Cymatodera vandykei Schaeffer -- Jacques Rifkind det.
his comment: "There's a similar one (pygidium is shaped differently), but it's generally found inland, rather than in the coastal range. (There's also an insular one that's undescribed.)"

Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 10 April, 2010 - 2:05pm login or register to post comments

Cymatodera -- i think so, too; will ask around
looks similar to vandykei in the Guide
… v belov, 10 April, 2010 - 1:29am login or register to post comments

 
Cymatodera yes
Does not look quite right for Lecontella. Out west there are a lot of spp. with similar elytral markings. It might be hard to get a species-level ID.
… Blaine Mathison, 10 April, 2010 - 6:18am login or register to post comments

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