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  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Beetles
  6. Cucujiform Beetles
  7. Bark-gnawing, Checkered, and Soft-winged Flower Beetles

superfamily

Bark-gnawing, Checkered, and Soft-winged Flower Beetles

Cleroidea

Includes
222 native 4 introduced 7 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Cleroidea is a small superfamily of beetles containing over 10,000 species. Most of the members of the group are somewhat slender, often with fairly soft, flexible elytra, and typically hairy or scaly.

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  • Checkered Beetle 116 native
  • Flower Beetle 76 native
  • Cadelle Beetle 17 native
  • Lophocateridae 3 native
  • Shield Beetle 3 native
  • False Skin Beetles 2 native
  • Fruitworm Beetles 2 native
  • Thaneroclerids 1 native
  • Thymalidae 1 native
  • Rhadalidae 1 native
  • Mauroniscidae
  • Prionoceridae

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native bark-gnawing, checkered, and soft-winged flower beetles All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Ornate Checkered Beetle Trichodes ornatus 12,325 observations
  • Airora cylindrica 178 observations
  • Collops georgianus 11 observations
  • Cymatodera latefascia 3 observations

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