Species
Thanasimus formicarius (European red-bellied clerid)
Thanasimus formicarius. Photo: (c) Jürgen Mangelsdorf, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
The ant beetle (Thanasimus formicarius), also known as the European red-bellied clerid, is a medium size insect, rather soft-bodied, with strong mandibles that can tear between the hard sclerotized integument of bark beetles. Larvae and adults are common predators of bark beetles in Europe.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Suborder: Polyphaga (Water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf, and snout beetles)
- Infraorder: Cucujiformia (Cucujiform beetles)
- Superfamily: Cleroidea (Bark-gnawing, checkered, and soft-winged flower beetles)
- Family: Cleridae (Checkered beetles)
- Subfamily: Clerinae
- Genus: Thanasimus
- Species: Thanasimus formicarius (European red-bellied clerid)
- Genus: Thanasimus
- Subfamily: Clerinae
- Family: Cleridae (Checkered beetles)
- Superfamily: Cleroidea (Bark-gnawing, checkered, and soft-winged flower beetles)
- Infraorder: Cucujiformia (Cucujiform beetles)
- Suborder: Polyphaga (Water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf, and snout beetles)
- Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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