''Rhagonycha cruralis'' is a species of soldier beetle in the family

Cantharidae The soldier beetles (Cantharidae) are relatively soft-bodied, straight-sided beetles. They are cosmopolitan in distribution. One of the first described species has a color pattern reminiscent of the Red coat (British army), red coats of early Bri ...

. It is found in North America.

References

* Delkeskamp, Kurt (1977). "Cantharidae". ''Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa, pars 165, fasc. 1'', 485.

* Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida . * Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press. * Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company. Cantharidae Beetles described in 1851 {{Elateroidea-stub

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