Species Necrobia violacea - Cosmopolitan Blue Bone Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited

beautiful little blue beetle on deer carcass - 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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