soldier beetles
cantharidae latin

Chauliognathus is a genus of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae.

In general, in size and form they resemble Soldier Beetles found on flowers.

These soldier beetles can be found on flowers, trees and shrubs from May to July, hunting for small insects.

Some are red and black, similar to the military uniforms that were common before the usage of camouflage, hence the name of soldier beetles.

Soldier beetles are highly desired by gardeners as biological control agents of a number of pest insects.

Soldier Beetles.

It contains the familiar click beetles, fireflies, and soldier beetles, and their relatives.

Soldier beetles: Yellow counterparts of warrior beetles, these ones fire poisonous acid from their abdomens and are also worth 75 points.

Cantharis (soldier beetles)

Rhagonycha nigriceps is a species of soldier beetles belonging to the family Cantharidae, subfamily Cantharinae.

Soldier beetles mate on the flowers, but they lay their eggs underground, where the larvae feed on grasshopper and cucumber beetle eggs.

The soldier beetles, Cantharidae, are relatively soft-bodied, straight-sided beetles, related to the Lampyridae or firefly family, but unable to produce light.

Some Bink recognized: lightning bugs zapping their charges (this must have been where the demonstration bug had come from, the one that had burned up in the village), soldier beetles marching in precise formations to their bivouac, ladybugs and damselflies hovering near in the immemorial fashion of easy virtue females near armies.

Chauliognathus is a genus of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae.

Rhagonycha nigriceps is a species of soldier beetles belonging to the family Cantharidae, subfamily Cantharinae.

The soldier beetles, Cantharidae, are relatively soft-bodied, straight-sided beetles, related to the Lampyridae or firefly family, but unable to produce light.

Lytta vesicatoria is sometimes incorrectly called Cantharis vesicatoria, but the genus Cantharis is in an unrelated family, Cantharidae.

Wittmer W., Kasantsev S. (1997) On the classification of the genus Cantharis Linné (Coleoptera, Cantharidae).

Denticollis linearis is quite similar to a Cantharidae species, but it can be distinguished from a soldier beetle by the two basal angles very protruding on pronotum and the deep longitudinal rows of pits.

Historically, these beetles were placed in a superfamily "Cantharoidea", which has been subsumed by the superfamily Elateroidea; the name is still sometimes used as a rankless grouping, including the families Cantharidae, Drilidae, Lampyridae, Lycidae, Omalisidae, Omethidae, Phengodidae (which includes Telegeusidae), and Rhagophthalmidae.