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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Korynetinae » Necrobia » Cosmopolitan Blue Bone Beetle (Necrobia violacea)

Species Necrobia violacea - Cosmopolitan Blue Bone Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Cosmopolitan Blue Bone Beetle? - Necrobia violacea Necrobia rufipes - Red-legged Ham Beetle?? - Necrobia violacea beetle - Necrobia violacea Violet Checkered Beetle - Necrobia violacea Blue hairy chrysomelid - Necrobia violacea Necrobia violacea on White-tailed Deer carcass - Necrobia violacea Necrobia violacea Cleridae, Cosmopolitan Blue Bone Beetle, venral - Necrobia violacea
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 Korynetinae
Genus Necrobia
Species violacea (Cosmopolitan Blue Bone Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Necrobia violacea (Linnaeus)
Identification
Range
now cosmopolitan(1) and occurs over much of the US and adjacent Canada(2)
native to the Palaearctic
Food
skins and bones of dead animals and dried fish; dermestid larvae(2)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of North American beetles of the family Cleridae
Wolcott A.B. 1947. Fieldiana: Zoology 32: 63–105.
2.The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Majka C.G. 2006. Zootaxa 1385: 31–46.
Contributed by Cotinis on 30 October, 2006 - 8:57am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 3 January, 2015 - 5:49pm

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