Chariessa floridana Schaeffer, 1917

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

Chariessa floridana Schaeffer, 1917 ; Cleridae : Korynetinae (no tribal assignment)

Illustrations: Plate 1-C. Key to clerid genera, couplet 8; Chariessa key, couplet 1-B

Distribution: Known only from south Florida (Key Largo, Monroe County) ( Opitz 2017).

Natural History: Collected from poisonwood ( Metopium toxiferum ) and collected from a rotten log, but what prey were infesting these plants was not noted ( Opitz 2017).

Mimicry: A mimic of lampyrids and cantharids ( Mawdsley 1994).