Red Milkweed Beetle

Tetraopes tetrophthalmus (Forster 1771)

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Tetraopes tetrophthalmus (Red Milkweed Beetle) is a species of beetles in the family long-horned beetles. They visit flowers of common milkweed, swamp milkweed, purple milkweed, and compassplant.

EOL has data for 12 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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Sialia sialis (Linnaeus 1758) (Eastern Bluebird)
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
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Phidippus audax (Hentz 1845) (Bold Jumper)
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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Asclepias syriaca L. (common milkweed)
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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Kentucky
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/6254925
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has host
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002454
- Attribution: From OBO Relation Ontology
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Asclepias syriaca L. (common milkweed)
visits
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002618
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Asclepias syriaca L. (common milkweed)
visits flowers of
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002622
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Asclepias syriaca L. (common milkweed)

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Red Milkweed Beetle. View this species on GBIF

Phil Myers, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor cc-by-nc-sa-3.0