Chariessa pilosa (Forster, 1771) is a animal in the Cleridae family, order Coleoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Chariessa pilosa (Forster, 1771)
Chariessa pilosa is a checkered beetle found across parts of Europe, Asia, and North America that preys on wood-boring beetles.
Chariessa pilosa is a species of checkered beetle that belongs to the family Cleridae. This species is distributed across Europe, Northern Asia (with the exclusion of China), and North America. It acts as a predator of wood-boring beetles, and resides within the tunnels that these wood-boring beetles create; it even stays in these galleries during its pupation stage.
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Enoclerus eximius (Mannerheim, 1843)
Madoniella dislocata (Say, 1825)
Trichodes nutalli (Kirby, 1818)
Pelonium leucophaeum (Klug, 1842)
Trichodes umbellatarum (Olivier, 1800)
Placopterus thoracicus (Olivier, 1795)
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