Neohydnocera

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 : 26-27

Key to species of Neohydnocera ( Clerinae : Hydnocerini ) in eastern North America

1. Body mostly or entirely testaceus ( A)............................................ Neohydnocera aegra (Newman)

1’. Body with black markings (often largely dark brown to black; B)............................................... 2

2 (1’). Elytra short, just over half the length of the abdomen, usually exposing 3+ abdominal segments (abdomens sometimes curl downwards, and if so, so a lateral view is necessary to compare abdominal and elytral lengths; A), elytra in dorsal view with lateral margin straight for about 2/3 of their length, then bending towards the tip or slightly concave on apical 1/3 ( B).............................................................................. Neohydnocera longicollis (Ziegler)

2’. Elytra longer, exposing no more than 2 abdominal segments ( C), in dorsal view, lateral margin straight for almost their entire length before smoothly curving towards tip very close to apex ( D).................... Neohydnocera tabida (LeConte)