Pelonides

Pelonides is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are about seven described species in Pelonides.[1][2][3]

Pelonides quadripunctata

Pelonides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cleridae
Subfamily: Enopliinae
Genus: Pelonides
Kuwert, 1894

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Pelonides:

  • Pelonides granulatipennis (Schaeffer, 1904)
  • Pelonides humeralis (Horn, 1868)
  • Pelonides quadrinotata
  • Pelonides quadripunctata (four-spotted checkered beetle)
  • Pelonides quadripunctatus (Say, 1823)
  • Pelonides scabripennis (LeConte, 1866)
  • Pelonides similis Knull, 1938

References
  1. "Pelonides Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. "Pelonides". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading
  • Opitz, W. (2015). "Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Pelonides Kuwert (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Enopliinae)". The Canadian Entomologist. 147 (5): 501–526. doi:10.4039/tce.2014.64.
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
  • Media related to Pelonides at Wikimedia Commons


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