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Four-spotted checkered beetle

Pelonides quadripunctatus

Photo by Aaron_G
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Field Notes

Description:

Black with bright orange elytra with four large dark spots. Antennae have ten segments. Elongate-oval. Black, shining; elytra bright red, each with two large rounded black spots, the first of these before, the other just behind the middle. Thorax subcylindrical. finely and sparsely punctate. Elytra gradually widened from base to apex, rather finely, shallowly and roughly punctate. Club of antennae in male three times as long as funicle, the inner angles of joints 8 and 9 produced into very long stout branches; club shorter in the female. (information from BugGuide)

Habitat:

City park

Notes:

This beetle was visiting crabapple blooms.

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