Cleridae


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Noun1.Cleridae - beetles that prey on other insects
arthropod family - any of the arthropods
clerid, clerid beetle - predacious on other insects; usually brightly colored or metallic
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(L) 0 0 Especie / Morfoespecie Orden Familia Necrobia rufipes DeGeer (A) Pr Coleoptera Cleridae Cnemalobus sp.
Toledo-Hernandez V, Rifkid J, Corona-Lopez AM, Flores-Palacios A, Leavengood JM (2015) Faunistic composition of Cleridae (Coleoptera) in El Limon de Cuauchichinola, Morelos, Mexico.
Less common members of the parasite community included five adult Leucospis affinis (Leucospidae) and seven adult Trichodes omatus (Cleridae) reared in 2011.
The insects are the first organisms to detect and colonize dead animals, being present in every phase of the decomposition process (Carvalho, Thyssen, Linhares, & Palhares, 2000); among them, the most frequently used in forensic studies are the dipterous belonging to the families Calliphoridae, Muscidae and Sarcophagidae (Rosa & Oliveira-Costa, 2013) and the Coleoptera families Dermestidae, Silphidae and Cleridae (Smith, 1986).
Genetic studies with Thanasimus dubius (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with sequences of mitochondrial COI gene, showed two main groups structured in north and south along its geographical distribution, with high gene flow within groups.
Wood (1982) also cited the coleopteran families Cleridae, Colydiidae (= Zopheridae), Cucujidae, Elateridae, Histeridae, Cybocephalidae, Rhizophagidae (Monotomidae), Staphylinidae, and Trogositidae as reported by Chamberlin (1939) as major predators of Scolytidae.
against Dermestes maculatus Degeer (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) and Necrobia rufipes Degeer (Coleoptera: Cleridae) on dried fish.