Chauliognathus tricolor | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Cantharidae |
Genus: | Chauliognathus |
Species: | C. tricolor
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Binomial name | |
Chauliognathus tricolor Castelnau, 1840
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Chauliognathus tricolor, the Tricolor soldier beetle, is a species of soldier beetle in the family Cantharidae.[1][2][3][4][5][6] It has a flattened body between 6 and 16 millimeters long with a prominent red-orange stripe behind the black prothorax. The abdomen is yellow-orange but is mostly obscured by the metallic olive green elytra.[7][8][9]