Cregya (Opitz, 2019)

Chapman, Eric G., Leavengood, John M. & Dupuis, Julian R., 2025, The Cleridae and Thanerocleridae of eastern North America, with illustrated keys, updated distributions, and special emphasis on the Kentucky fauna, Zootaxa 5639 (1), pp. 1-88 : 33-34

Cregya america Opitz, 2019; Cleridae : Korynetinae (no tribal assignment)

Illustrations: Plate 1-E. Key to clerid genera, couplet 6; Cregya key, couplet 3-B

Distribution: FL to TX and south to Honduras ( Opitz, 2019).

- Recorded from: FL, LA, TX, Mexico and Honduras ( Opitz, 2019).

Natural History: Reared from wood of hackberry species ( Celtis laevigata , C. lindheimeri ), great leadtree ( Leucaena pulverulenta ), but infestations were not noted ( Opitz 2019). Adults have been associated with the foliage of sweet acacia ( Acacia farnesiana ), sweet orange ( Citrus sinensis (= Citrus × aurantium )), and Zanthoxylum sp. ( Opitz 2019).

Comments: See section on C. quadrinotata below (species erroneously reported from eastern North America ).