Checkered Beetle
Cymatodera sp.
16.7147, -92.6154
Field Notes
Description:
An orange-brown Checkered Beetle, 1 cm in length, with dark brown marks on the elytra and a dark thorax and head. These beetles are predaceous. Another specimen (pictures 3-6) was found on 5 November 18 in the same place. This specimen shows the dark pattern a little clearer. There are more than 50 species of Cymatodera and new ones being found all the time. Family Cleridae, Subfamily Tillinae.
Habitat:
Garden lights, semi-rural residential area, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, 2,200 meters.
Notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatodera
https://www.naturalista.mx/taxa/174061-Cymatodera
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/3106/
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/5690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3970058/
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1649/0010-065X-68.1.69
http://www.bugphotos.net/disp.php?g=Cymatodera
https://www.naturalista.mx/taxa/174061-Cymatodera/browse_photos
https://bugguide.net/node/view/13105
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