Family Cleridae

The checkered beetles

corrected and supplemented by W.F. Barr, December 1995

Subfamily Thaneroclerinae

Ababa Casey

• A. tantilla (LeConte), eUS, FL (ALA, MON), Mexico

Thaneroclerus Lefebvre

• +T. buquet (Lefebvre), intercepted at Florida ports, probably not established; Cuba, introduced from Old World

Tribe Tillinae

Callotillus Wolcott

• C. eburneocinctus Wolcott, FL endemic (DAD, MON)

Cymatodera Gray

• C. bicolor (Say), IN-NY-AL-FL (ALA)
• C. floridana Barr, FL endemic (HIG)
• C. inornata (Say), IN-ON-OK-FL (ALA, BAK, HIG, HIL, LEO) (Many of these are labelled "nr. inornata")
• C. undulata (Say), IN-VA-OK-FL (LIB)
• C. wolcotti Barr, GA-FL (ALA, BAK, CLA, DAD, LIB, PIN)
• C. n.sp., FL (BRO, DAD)

Cymatoderella Barr

• C. collaris (Spinola), seUS, FL (ALA, DIX, LIB, SUM, UNI), Mexico

Lecontella Wolcott and Chapin

• L. brunnea (Spinola), TX-FL (ALA, DAD, HIG, JEF, MON)

Monophylla Spinola

• M. terminata (Say), IN-ON-TX-FL (ALA, DAD, HIG, MON)

Subfamily Clerinae

Enoclerus Gahan

• E. angustus (LeConte), VA-FL (ALA, DUV, LEV, UNI)
  = virginiensis (Schaeffer)
• E. ichneumoneus (Fabricius), eUS, FL (ALA, DIX, FLA, HER, HIL, JAC, LIB, MAN, MARI, NAS, ORA, SEM, VOL)
• E. knabi (Wolcott), FL endemic (ALA, BRE, CIT, DUV, GAD, HAR, HIG, IND, LAK, LIB, MAN, MART, NAS, PAS, SEM, SLU, UNI, VOL)
• E. lunatus (Klug), eUS, FL (ALA, CLA, COLL, DAD, DIX, HIG, IND, JEF, LEV, MARI, MON, PAL, PUT, VOL)
• E. rosmarus (Say), eUS, FL (LIB)
• E. n. nigripes (Say), FL (LIB)

Placopterus Wolcott

• P. subcostatus (Schaeffer), TX, FL (ALA, HER, HIG, LEV, LIB, MARI, PAS, PUT, SEM, UNI)
• P. thoracicus (Oliver), eUS, FL (HIG, MARI, UNI)

Priocera Kirby

• P. castanea (Newman), seUS, FL (ALA, HIG, LIB)

Thanasimus Latreille

• T. dubius (Fabricius), WI-ON-TX-FL (ALA, BAK)

Trichodes Herbst

• T. a. apivorus Germar, eUS, FL (ALA, CIT, CLA, DAD, DUV, FRA, HAR, HIG, IND, LEV, LIB, MARI, OKA, ORA, PAL, SEM, TAY, WAL)

Subfamily Hydnocerinae

Isohydnocera Chapin

• I. aegra (Newman), GA-FL (ALA, COLL, DIX, FRA, GUL, IND, PAL, SAR, SRO)
• I. curtipennis (Newman), FL

Phyllobaenus Dejean

• P. humeralis (Say) e & w US, FL
• P. pallipennis (Say), IN-ON-TX-FL (ALA, LIB)
• P. pubescens (LeConte), IL-SC-TX-FL (GAD)
• P. rufipes (Newman), AL-FL (ALA, ESC, LEV, NAS, OKA, PUT, UNI)
• P. suturalis (Klug), FL, Mexico
• P. unifasciatus (Say), FL
• P. verticalis Say, eUS, FL (ALA, WAL)

Subfamily Epiphloeinae

Neichnea Wolcott and Chapin

• N. laticornis (Say), eUS, FL (ORA)

Phlogistosternus Wolcott

• P. dislocatus (Say), IL-ON-TX-FL (LIB)

Subfamily Enopliinae

Chariessa Perty

• C. floridana Schaeffer, FL endemic (MON)
• C. pilosa Forster, eUS, FL (ALA, BRA, DIX, IND, HIG, LEV, LIB, MON, PUT)

Cregya LeConte

• C. oculata (Say), eUS, FL (ALA, JEF, HAR, IND, LEV, LIB, MARI, VOL)
• C. n.sp., FL (DAD, CHA, LAK, MON, HIG)

Neorthopleura Barr

• N. thoracica (Say), eUS, FL (ALA, COLL, DAD, HIG, IND, LEO, LEV, LIB, MARI, MON, VOL)
  = Orthopleura damicornis of authors (not Fabricius)

Orthopleura Spinola

• 0. damicornis (Fabricius), eUS, FL, ?Cuba, Mexico

Pelonium Spinola

• P. leucophaeum Klug, eUS, FL (ALA, BRO, DAD, FLA, IND, LAK, MAN, ORA, POL, SAR)

Subfamily Korynetinae

Necrobia Oliver

• +N. rufipes Degeer, the redlegged ham beetle, cosmopolitan., FL (ALA, BRO, DAD, DUV, HEN, HIL, LIB, MARI, MON), Cuba, Bahamas; associated with spoiled meat, fish, or cheese, and occasionally on cured ham and bacon
• +N. ruficollis Fabricius, the redshouldered ham beetle, cosmopolitan, FL (HIL)
• +N. violacea (Linnaeus), cosmopolitan, FL (DAD, ORA)

Subfamily Tarsosteninae

Tarsostenus Spinola

• +T. univittatus (Rossi), intercepted at Florida ports, probably not established

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