Species Paratillus carus - White-banded Clerid

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Works Cited

beetle found in eucalyptus sapling harvested from Salinas, CA. Now in San Mateo Bark has been hewn. Beetles walking at night. - Paratillus carus - female

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 Tarsosteninae

Genus Paratillus

Species carus (White-banded Clerid)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tarsostenus carus

Explanation of Names

Paratillus carus (Newman 1840)

Size

5–7 mm(1)

Range

native to Australia, adventive elsewhere, incl. S Europe(1)(2)

Food

buprestid larvae(1); Lyctinae(2)

Works Cited

1.	Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.

2.	Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.

Contributed by v belov on 15 February, 2014 - 5:35pm
Last updated 22 February, 2014 - 3:08pm

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