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  11. ›Clerinae
  12. ›Placopterus
Black and Red Checkered Beetle
Plate 1 of 8. (c) Mike Quinn, San Marcos, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mike Quinn, San Marcos · via iNaturalist

Black and Red Checkered Beetle

Placopterus thoracicus

Placopterus thoracicus is a species of checkered beetle in the family Cleridae. It is found in Central America and North America.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 211848.