Pelonides

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

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

Pelonides quadripunctata

Species

These species belong to the genus Pelonides:

• Pelonides granulatipennis (Schaeffer, 1904)
• Pelonides humeralis (Horn, 1868)
• Pelonides quadrinotata (Haldeman, 1853)
• Pelonides quadripunctata (Say, 1823) (four-spotted checkered beetle)
• 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.
3. "Pelonides genus Information". BugGuide.net. 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.

External links

• Media related to Pelonides at Wikimedia Commons