Overview of genera

Dermestoides – Hemitrachys – Iwawakia – Megafodina – Nelsonoplium – Neorthopleura – Parapelonides – Pelonium – Sedlacekvia – Syriopelta – ...

Primary references

• Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. F. Dufart, Paris, xii + pp. 13–467 + [1 (errata)]. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Bartlett, J.S. 2009: The Cleridae of Lord Howe Island, with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Records of the Australian Museum, 61: 225–228. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.61.2009.1530
• Bartlett, J.S. 2015. New synonymies for Australian Cleridae (Coleoptera). Zootaxa 4057(2): 281–287. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.9. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Corporaal, J.B. 1937: Check list of the Cleridae (Coleoptera) of Oceania. Occasional papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 13(3): 11–26. PDF
• Faisal, M.; Singh, S.; Yousuf, M. 2014: Cleridae (Insecta: Coleoptera) type collection at National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC), Forest Research Institute, Dehradun (India). Zootaxa 3846(1): 105–118. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.1.5 Reference page. 
• Gerstmeier, R. 2014: An overview of taxonomy and biology of the Cleridae (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae). Giornale italiano di entomologia 13(59): 481–494. Abstract only seen Reference page. 
• Gunter, N.L. et al. 2013: A molecular phylogeny of the checkered beetles and a description of Epiclininae a new subfamily (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Cleridae). Systematic entomology, DOI: 10.1111/syen.12019
• Kolibáč, J. 1997(1996): Classification of the subfamilies of Cleridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Acta Musei Moraviae, scientiae naturales (Brno), 81: 307–361.
• Kolibáč, J. 2010: 9.6. Cleridae Latreille, 1802. Pp. 257-261 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. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755 DOI: 10.1515/9783110911213.257
• Kolibáč, J. & Huang, D. 2016. The oldest known clerid fossils from the Middle Jurassic of China, with a review of Cleridae systematics (Coleoptera). Systematic Entomology 41(4): 808–823. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12192 . Reference page. 
• Leavengood, J.M., jr.; Garner, B.H. 2014: Nomenclatural notes on some checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) types of the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Zootaxa 3760(3): 301–335. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3760.3.1 Reference page. 
• I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2007 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4: Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-67-6, p. 367
• Opitz, W. 2009: Classification, natural history, and evolution of Neorthopleurinae subfam. nov. (Coleoptera, Cleridae). Part I. Generic composition of the subfamily and key to genera. Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey, 31: 135–207.
• 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. [not seen]
• Zappi, I. & Ghahari, H. 2016. A checklist of the Cleridae of Iran with new data (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Zootaxa 4147(4): 403–420. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.4.3. Reference page. 

Links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Cleridae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
• Atlas of checkered beetles (Cleridae) of Russia