Soldier Beetles

Cantharidae

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Cantharidae (Soldier Beetles) is a family of beetles. They visit flowers of blessed milkthistle, feverfew, Chilean romerillo, and Chaptalia integerrima.

EOL has data for 22 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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is eaten by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002471
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Setophaga petechia (Linnaeus 1766) (Mangrove Warbler)
host of
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002453
- Attribution: From OBO Relation Ontology
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Acari (mites)
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
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Abax
cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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developmental mode
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DevelopmentalMode
- Definition: Broad recognized categories describing development, the process by which organisms grow and mature
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holometabolous
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/holometabolous
- Definition: Development of insects with complete metamorphosis which involves a pupal stage.
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eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Prunus spinosa L. (Blackthorn)
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Mozambique
- URI: https://www.geonames.org/1036973
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number of public records in bold
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
- Definition: number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)
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preys on
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002439
- Definition: An interaction relationship involving a predation process, where the subject kills the target in order to eat it or to feed to siblings, offspring or group members
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Zora spinimana (Sundevall 1833)
type specimen repository
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TypeSpecimenRepository
- Definition: The institution that holds a type specimen for a given species. The recommended best practice is to use the identifier in a collections registry such as the Biodiversity Collections Index (http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/).
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Naturalis
visits flowers of
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002622
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Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. (blessed milkthistle)

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of soldier beetles. View this species on GBIF

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Soldier Beetle Habitats

The environments in which many soldier beetles species are known to live. Select an environment to see its soldier beetles species checklist.

soldier beetles Habitats

The environments in which many soldier beetles species are known to live. Select an environment to see its soldier beetles species checklist.

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