An Annotated List of the Checkered Beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of Michigan

Abstract

[Excerpt] The checkered beetles (Cleridae) have been included in local lists of Michigan Coleoptera by Andrews ( 1916, 192 1, 1929), Hatch (1924), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878). LeConte (1850), and Wolcott (1909). The present list is the first to include records from throughout the state, and is based on the collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ), those of the Department of Entomology, Michigan State University (MSUC), and the private collections of E. F. Giesbert, D. K. Young, and the author. This list records 35 species of Cleridae from the state, and I believe it is essentially complete, although future collecting in the southern counties may well produce new records