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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Cleroidea) » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Enopliinae » Pelonides » Pelonides quadrinotata

Species Pelonides quadrinotata

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Works Cited
4-spotted Checkered Beetle - Pelonides quadrinotata - female Four-Spotted Checkered Beetle? - Pelonides quadrinotata - male Small red beetle with two black spots - Pelonides quadrinotata bug, elongated, black spots, feathery branched antennae - Pelonides quadrinotata Pelonides quadrinotata (Haldeman) - Pelonides quadrinotata - female small red beetle - Pelonides quadrinotata Pelonides quadrinotata - Pelonides quadrinotata Pelonides quadrinotata (Haldeman) - Pelonides quadrinotata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea (Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles)
Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)
Subfamily Enopliinae
Genus Pelonides
Species quadrinotata (Pelonides quadrinotata)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly treated as a variety of P. quadripunctata (Say)
Explanation of Names
Pelonides quadrinotata (Haldeman 1853)
Size
4.3–8.0 mm(1)
Identification
individuals with any kind of red marking on the forebody (head+prothorax) are P. quadrinotata (which sometimes has no spots at all), while in P. quadripunctata the forebody is entirely black
Range
KS-TX(1)
Habitat
collected on bloom of Allium, Asclepias, Ceanothus, Quercus, Apocynum(1)
Season
Mar-May(1)
Works Cited
1.Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Pelonides Kuwert (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Enopliinae)
Opitz W. 2015. Can. Entomol. 147: 501-526.
Contributed by v belov on 11 April, 2014 - 10:54am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 27 April, 2019 - 8:06pm

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