Chariessa is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. Chariessa beetles are carnivorous and often associated with trees of the genus Quercus, likely due to a preference for lignicolous insects that live in oaks.
Enopliinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Cleridae.
Cregya is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are over 100 described species in Cregya.
Pennasolis merkeli is a species of checkered beetle in the family Cleridae. It is found in North America.
Pennasolis is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are at least three described species in Pennasolis.
Epiphloeinae is a subfamily of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are about 5 genera and at least 30 described species in Epiphloeinae.
Madoniella is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are about 11 described species in Madoniella.
Pelonides granulatipennis is a species of checkered beetle in the family Cleridae. It is found in Central America and North America.
Pelonides is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are about seven described species in Pelonides.
Boschella is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There is one described species in Boschella, B. fasciata.
Neorthopleura is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are at least three described species in Neorthopleura.
Paratillus is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There is one described species in Paratillus, P. carus.
Tarsosteninae is a subfamily of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are at least two genera and two described species in Tarsosteninae.
Chariessa pilosa is a species of checkered beetle in the family Cleridae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia and North America.
Pyticeroides laticornis, the broad-horned clerid, is a species of checkered beetle in the family Cleridae. It is found in North America.
Pyticeroides is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are about nine described species in Pyticeroides.
Chariessa vestita is a species of checkered beetle in the family Cleridae. It is found in Central America, North America, and South America.
Tarsostenus is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. It includes the cosmopolitan species T. univittatus.
Pelonides humeralis is a species of checkered beetle in the family Cleridae. It is found in Central America and North America.
Chariessa catalina is a recently described species of North American checkered beetle. Chariessa catalina can be distinguished from Chariessa elegans by an elytra that is closer to blue than black, and a forebody that is closer to crimson than C. elegans' diluted-blood red. C. catalina and C. elegans share a range in the southwestern corner of the continent but the range of C. elegans extends north toward the U.S.-Canadian border. This species seems to be most often encountered in March. The type specimen was collected in the Catalina Mountains of Arizona in 1969.
