Pelonides quadripunctata (Say, 1823)

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 : 52

Pelonides quadripunctata (Say, 1823) ; Cleridae : Korynetinae (no tribal assignment)

Illustrations: Plate 3-J. Key to clerid genera, couplet 2-C, couplet 3-D, couplet 5-B, couplet 6-B, D, H, I

Distribution: NC to MD to eastern KS and TX.

- Recorded from:AL, AR, IL, IN, LA, KS, KY, MO, MS, NC, OH, OK and TX ( Wolcott 1947; Papp 1960; Opitz 2014).

Kentucky counties (Map 22): Jefferson (1), Simpson (2). The three Kentucky specimens were collected in the Interior Plateau ecoregion.

Years: 1971 (1), 2016 (2)

Months: April (1), July (2)

Collections (3): TAMUIC (2), UKIC (1)

Natural History: Knull (1951) reported that it has been collected from the dead branches of black walnut ( Juglans nigra ) in West Virginia (infestation not noted) and that adults are diurnal and were collected from hawthorn ( Crataegus ) flowers. Opitz (2014) reported the following associations from label data: adults collected from pear trees ( Pyrus ) and black cherry ( Prunus serotina ), and by beating parsley hawthorn ( Crataegus marshallii ). There is a BugGuide record of this species being found on cultivated red tip ( Photinia ) flowers in North Carolina (https:// bugguide.net/node/view/1956685).