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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Tillinae » Cymatodera » Cymatodera wolcotti
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Checkered Beetle - Cymatodera wolcotti
Copyright © 2011 JC Jones

Checkered Beetle - Cymatodera wolcotti
Spiderweb, Aiken County, South Carolina, USA
August 26, 2011
Size: 10mm
Came to light.

Undulate Checkered Beetle (Cymatodera undulata)?
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Contributed by JC Jones on 27 August, 2011 - 7:43am
Last updated 8 September, 2011 - 2:55pm

Moved tentatively; thanks, John
Moved from Cymatodera.
… v belov, 8 September, 2011 - 2:55pm login or register to post comments

If I was forced to name it...
I'd call this C. wolcotti, but I've never been comfortable between the whole wolcotti/undulata pair. I doubt C. wolcotti (compared largely to C. balteata in its description) will survive a revision of the genus should one ever very deservingly occur.
… John Leavengood, 8 September, 2011 - 12:49pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Checkered Beetles.

Will leave species confirmation for John Laevengood or others :).
… Blaine Mathison, 29 August, 2011 - 10:39am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles.
… Brad Barnd, 27 August, 2011 - 4:11pm login or register to post comments

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