-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

-Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

-Insects (Class Insecta)

-Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

-Beetles (Order Coleoptera​​)

-​Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles (Suborder Polyphaga)

-​Cucujiform Beetles (Infraorder Cucujiformia)

-Bark-gnawing, Checkered, and Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Superfamily Cleroidea)

-Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Family Melyridae)

-Malachite Beetles (Subfamily Malachiinae)

-Genus Collops​

-Four-spotted Collops Beetle (Collops ​quadrimaculatus)

The Collops quadrimaculatus is a species of beetle in the family Melyridae, commonly known as soft-winged flower beetles. This beetle is known for its bright coloration and predatory habits, especially toward other small insects. Collops quadrimaculatus is distinctive for its bright orange-red body with four black spots on the elytra (wing covers), which gives it the "four-spotted" name.