Introduction. The name of each listed species is followed by up to five sources that report the species as occurring in Michigan. Sources in all upper-case letters refer to specific insect collections: MSU-ARC refers to material held by the Michigan State University Arthropod Research Collection (data provided by G. Parsons). All others refer to collection data extracted from the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN) database online at https://scan-bugs.org/. See the Methods page for a list of abbreviations and associated collections.
Species names preceded by a single '?' are considered probable (for occurring in Michigan) but uncertain records. Those preceded by '??' are considered possible but unlikely to occur in Michigan. Species that are fully accepted as having valid Michigan records are unmarked. Species reported in the literature that we consider to be erroneous Michigan records are in a separate list following the others.
Two very different subfamily arrangements for the Cleridae appear in Opitz (2010) and Bouchard (2011). We follow the one proposed by Opitz (2010) as does BugGuide. That classification does not recognize tribes within the subfamilies.
CLERIDAE
7 subfamilies, 18 genera, 35 species (plus 3 species reported for Michigan in error)
Subfamily Clerinae
Enoclerus lecontei (Wolcott, 1910): Gosling (1980), Downie and Arnett (1996)
Enoclerus muttkowskii (Wolcott, 1909): Gosling (1980), Andrews (1923), Downie and Arnett (1996), MSU-ARC
Enoclerus nigrifrons (Say, 1823): Gosling (1980)
Enoclerus nigripes nigripes (Say, 1823): Andrews (1923), iNaturalist Observations, MSU-ARC; Gosling (1980), Downie and Arnett (1996) & Hubbard and Schwarz (1878) list the species w/o subspecies, ID of MSU-ARC specimens verified by WGR
Enoclerus nigripes rufiventris (Spinola, 1844): Haack and Ruesink (2020), Leng (1920), MSU-ARC; Gosling (1980), Downie and Arnett (1996) & Hubbard and Schwarz (1878) list the species w/o subspecies
Enoclerus quadrisignatus (Say, 1835): Gosling (1980)
Enoclerus rosmarus (Say, 1823): Gosling (1980), BugGuide, MSU-ARC; Gosling (1980): "All of the specimens of rosmarus in the Andrews collection (MSU-ARC, UMMZ:UMMZI) were incorrectly identified by him as analis. I believe that analis does not occur in Michigan, and presume that Andrews' (1916) record for analis from the Charity Islands in Saginaw Bay refers to rosmarus."
Placopterus thoracicus (Olivier, 1795): Gosling (1980), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC
Priocera castanea (Newman, 1838): Gosling (1980), Downie and Arnett (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC
Thanasimus dubius (Fabricius, 1777): Gosling (1980), Andrews (1923), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC
Thanasimus trifasciatus (Say, 1825): Gosling (1980), MSU-ARC
Thanasimus undatulus (Say, 1835): Gosling (1980), Andrews (1923), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC; said to have 5 subsp. in NA
Trichodes nutalli (Kirby, 1818): Gosling (1980), Andrews (1923), Downie and Arnett (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC; nutalli spelled both with 1 or 2 t's
Subfamily Epiphloeinae
Madoniella dislocata (Say, 1825): Gosling (1980), Andrews (1923), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC
Pyticeroides laticornis (Say, 1835): Gosling (1980), Andrews (1916), MSU-ARC
Subfamily Hydnocerinae
Isohydnocera curtipennis (Newman, 1840): Gosling (1980), Clampitt et al. (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC
Isohydnocera tabida (LeConte, 1849): Gosling (1980), Clampitt et al. (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC
Phyllobaenus humeralis (Say, 1823): Gosling (1980), Clampitt et al. (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC
Phyllobaenus lecontei (Wolcott, 1912): Gosling (1980), Downie and Arnett (1996), MSU-ARC
Phyllobaenus pallipennis (Say, 1825): Gosling (1980), Clampitt et al. (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC
Phyllobaenus unifasciatus (Say, 1825): Gosling (1980), Downie and Arnett (1996), MSU-ARC
Phyllobaenus verticalis (Say, 1835): Gosling (1980), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC
Wolcottia pedalis (LeConte, 1866): Gosling (1980), Andrews (1916)
Subfamily Korynetinae
Necrobia ruficollis (Fabricius, 1775): Gosling (1980), MSU-ARC
Necrobia rufipes (DeGeer, 1775): Gosling (1980), MSU-ARC
Necrobia violacea (Linnaeus, 1758): Gosling (1980), Andrews (1923), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC
Subfamily Orthopleurinae
Neorthopleura thoracica (Say, 1823): Gosling (1980), Downie and Arnett (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC
Subfamily Peloniinae
Chariessa pilosa (Forster, 1771): Gosling (1980), Opitz (2017), Andrews (1923), MSU-ARC
Cregya oculata (Say, 1835): Gosling (1980), MSU-ARC
Pelonium leucophaeum (Klug, 1842): Gosling (1980), MSU-ARC
Subfamily Tillinae
Cymatodera bicolor (Say, 1825): Gosling (1980), Burke et al. (2015), BugGuide, MSU-ARC
Cymatodera inornata (Say, 1835): Gosling (1980), Burke et al. (2015), Downie and Arnett (1996), Hubbard and Schwarz (1878), MSU-ARC
Cymatodera undulata (Say, 1825): Gosling (1980), Burke et al. (2015), MSU-ARC
Lecontella brunnea (Spinola, 1844): Gosling (1980), Burke and Zolnerowich (2017), MSU-ARC; L. cancellata was synonymized by Ekis (1975) with L. brunnea (Spinola).
Monophylla terminata (Say, 1835): Gosling (1980), Burke and Zolnerowich (2017), MSU-ARC
The following species were reported from Michigan, but we consider them to be adventive, misidentifications or other errors:
Enoclerus analis (LeConte, 1849): Andrews (1916); Gosling (1980) wrote: "All of the specimens of rosmarus in the Andrews collection (MSU-ARC, UMMZ:UMMZI) were incorrectly identified by him as analis. I believe that analis does not occur in Michigan, and presume that Andrews' (1916) record for analis from the Charity Islands in Saginaw Bay refers to rosmarus."
Enoclerus quadriguttatus (Olivier, 1795): Andrews (1916); a European sp., does not occur in N.A.
Thanasimus formicarius (Linnaeus, 1758): Klimaszewski et al. (2017) report this species as being released in MI for biocontrol of the exotic bark beetle Tomicus piniperda (L.), but to the best of our knowledge that never happened (see: Haack and Poland 2001).
This family list was last updated: November 3, 2021