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Tricolor Soldier Beetle
Plate 1 of 11. (c) Reiner Richter, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Reiner Richter · via iNaturalist

Tricolor Soldier Beetle

Chauliognathus tricolor

Chauliognathus tricolor, the Tricolor soldier beetle, is a species of soldier beetle in the family Cantharidae. It has a flattened body between 6 to 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.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 574588.