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

Subfamily Orthopleurinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited
Checkered Beetle - Neorthopleura thoracica Clerid - Neorthopleura thoracica Beetle ID - Neorthopleura thoracica Neorthopleura thoracica Beetle - Neorthopleura thoracica Loedelia maculicollis? - Loedelia maculicollis Neorthopleura - Neorthopleura thoracica Checkered beetle – Neorthopleura thoracica? - Neorthopleura thoracica
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 Orthopleurinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
members of this recently erected subfamily(1) used to be treated in Enopliinae or in Korynetinae (e.g. in(2))
Synonymized with Neorthopleurinae
Numbers
TBA spp. in 3 genera in our area(2), ~260 spp. in 22 genera total(1)
Size
worldwide, 2.5–12.0 mm(1)
Range
worldwide, esp. diverse in Africa and Asia(1)
Habitat
larvae in galleries of lignicolous insects(1)
Food
Adults prey on Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, Curculionidae, and Lymexylidae(1)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.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.
Contributed by v belov on 15 February, 2012 - 11:29am
Additional contributions by Troy Bartlett, Mike Quinn
Last updated 15 April, 2018 - 9:55am

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