Pelonides

Genus of beetles

Pelonides

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
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 seven described species in Pelonides.[1][2][3]

Pelonides quadripunctata

## Species

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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

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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

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* 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

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* Media related to Pelonides at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Pelonides|

* Wikidata: Q29146794
* Wikispecies: Pelonides
* BugGuide: 103953
* CoL: 6KD5
* GBIF: 4765493
* iNaturalist: 325836
* IRMNG: 1417408
* ITIS: 999196
* Open Tree of Life: 4657598

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