Trichodes ornatus
Ornate Checkered Beetle
A member of the Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles), Order Coleoptera (Beetles),
Class Insecta (Insects), Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods), Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
On flowers of Rush Milkweed.
Along Essex Road several miles northwest of entrance sign at ca. 2400 feet elevation.
4 May 2008, 11:35 am.
Image copyright © Lee Dittmann.
Side view of same beetle.
4 May 2008, 11:32 am.
Image copyright © Lee Dittmann.
This page created 18 September 2008; revised 10 December 2009.
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