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

Genus Aulicus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Aulicus antennatus? - Aulicus antennatus

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 Clerinae

Genus Aulicus

Explanation of Names

Aulicus Spinola 1841

Numbers

10 spp. in our area(1)

Size

7-20 mm(1)

Range

Southcentral and w. US(1)

Habitat

very active on flowers, foliage of shrubs and trees, or found scurrying on the soil surface(1)

Season

Most spp. are very active during the oviposition period of grasshoppers(1)

Food

Adults feed on Noctuidae caterpillars whereas the larvae feed on the egg masses of lubber grasshppers(1)

Life Cycle

"Adults lay their eggs on grasshopper ootheca for larvae to feed on grasshopper embryos." (Weston Opitz, pers. comm.)

Print References

Barr, W.F. and D.E. Foster. 1979. Revision of the genus Aulicus (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Melanderia 33: 1–31.

Linsley, E.G. 1936. Studies in the genus Aulicus Spinola (Coleoptera-Cleridae). University of California Publications in Entomology 6: 249-262.

Mawdsley J.R. (2002) Cladistic analysis of the Nearctic checkered beetle genus Aulicus Spinola (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 109: 337-343.

Schaeffer, C. (1921) New species of North American clerid beetles of the genus Aulicus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 59(2365): 151–159. (Full Text)

Works Cited

1.	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 Jim McClarin on 7 September, 2006 - 9:07pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 25 June, 2019 - 7:34pm

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