Useful resources and selected bibliography
Catalogues
Corporaal, J. B. 1950. Cleridae. Pp. 1—373 in Hincks, W. D. (ed.) Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pars 23. W. Junk, 's-Gravenhage. Available at BHL
Wolcott, A. B. 1947. Catalogue of North American beetles of the family Cleridae. Feldiana: Zoology 32, 59-106. Available at BHL
Websites
Checkered beetles of Atlantic Canada
Gerstmeier, R. 1998. Buntkäfer: Illustrierter Schlüssel Zu Den Cleridae und Thanerocleridae Der West-Paläarktis. Margraf Verlag,
Weikersheim, Germany. 241 pp. (This book is highly reccomended; it is available in an English/German bi-lingual version)
Gerstmeier, R., Kuff, T.L. 1992. Revision der paläarktischen Arten der Gattungen Tillus Olivier, 1790, Tilloidea Castelnau, 1832, Falsotillus
gen.n. und Flabellotilloidea gen.n. (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Tillinae). Mitteilungen Münchner Entomologische Gesellschaft 82, 55721.
Knull, J. N. 1949. Three new species of Cleridae (Coleoptera). Ohio Journal of Science 49, 199–200.
Knull, J.N. 1951. The checkered beetles of Ohio (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin 8, 268–350.
Kolibáč, J. 1992. Revision of Thanerocleridae n. stat. (Coleoptera, Cleroidea). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft
65, 303–340.
Kolibáč, J., and R. A. B. Leschen 2010. 9.5. Thanerocleridae Chapin, 1924. in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.)
Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). in: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 253-257.
Leavengood, Jr., J.M. 2008. The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of Florida. Thesis for the degree of Master of Science. University of
Florida, Gainesville. 206 pp. [HERE]
LeConte, J.L. 1849. Synopsis of the coleopterous insects of the group Cleridae which inhabit the United States. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural
History of New York 5, 9–35.
Mawdsley, J.R. 1994. Mimicry in Cleridae (Coleoptera). The Coleopterists Bulletin 48, 115–125.
Mawdsley, J.R. 2001. Cladistic analysis of Nearctic species of Enoclerus Gahan (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with discussion of the evolution of
mimicry and cryptic coloration. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 127, 459–471.
Opitz, W. 2002. 73. Cleridae Latreille 1804. p. 276–280. In: R. H. Arnett, Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). American Beetles.
Volume 2. Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press; Boca Raton, FL. xiv + 861 p.
Opitz, W. 2010. Classification, natural history, phylogeny, and subfamily composition of the Cleridae and generic content of the subfamilies
(Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey 32, 31–128.
Wolcott, A.B. 1947. Catalogue of North American Beetles of the Family Cleridae. Fieldiana: Zoology 32, 61–105.
Vaurie, P. 1952. The checkered beetles of north central Mexico (Coleoptera, Cleridae). American Museum novitates; no. 1597. 38 pp. [HERE]