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Species Cregya oculata

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 Peloniinae

Genus Cregya

Species oculata (Cregya oculata)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cregya oculata (Say)

Orig. Comb: Clerus oculatus Say 1835

Size

Length 4.3-6.5 mm (1)

Identification

Elytral disc uniformly brown, elytral margins testaceous; pronotal disc with two brown spots (1)

Range

e. US (MA-FL to KS-TX)(2)

Season

Most specimens collected during the Spring and Summer (1)

Food

bark beetle and cerambycid larvae(3)

Remarks

comes to lights(4)

Print References

Opitz, W. 2019. Classification, natural history, and evolution of the subfamily Peloniinae Opitz (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Cleridae). Part XV. Taxonomic revision of the new world genus Cregya Leconte. Faunitaxys 7(15): 1-126. (1)

Works Cited

1.	Classification, natural history, and evolution of the subfamily Peloniinae Opitz (Cleridae). Part XV. Revision of Cregya Opitz, W. 2019. Faunitaxys 7(15): 1-126.

2.	Catalogue of North American beetles of the family Cleridae Wolcott A.B. 1947. Fieldiana: Zoology 32: 63–105.

3.	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.

4.	The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2. Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 1 October, 2006 - 3:36am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 15 January, 2020 - 7:46pm

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