Chariessa

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Chariessa is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are about six described species in Chariessa.^[2][3][4][5]

Chariessa
Chariessa pilosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Cleridae
Genus:	Chariessa Perty, 1832[1]
Type species
Chariessa ramicornis Perty in Spix & Martius, 1832
Synonyms[2]
Brachymorphus Chevrolat, 1835 Tarandocerus Chevrolat, 1876

Chariessa beetles are carnivorous and often associated with trees of the genus Quercus, likely due to a preference for lignicolous insects that live in oaks.^[6]

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Chariessa:

• Chariessa dichroa (LeConte, 1865) (North America)
• Chariessa elegans Horn, 1878 (North and Central America)
• Chariessa floridana Schaeffer, 1917 (North America)
• Chariessa pilosa (Forster, 1771) (Palearctic, North America)
• Chariessa texana Wolcott, 1908 (North America)
• Chariessa vestita Chevrolat, 1835 (North, Central, and South America)
• Chariessa catalina Optiz, 2017 (North America)

• 
  Chariessa texana, Texas
• 
  Chariessa pilosa, Oklahoma
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  Chariessa vestita, Texas
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  Chariessa catalina, Oregon