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Genus Brachys

Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Brachys ovatus Beetle - Brachys ovatus Buprestid - Brachys ovatus Brachys? - Brachys ovatus Brachys - Brachys aerosus - female metallic wood-boring beetle - Brachys ovatus Beetle - Brachys aerosus Leigh Farm Park leaf miner on Ulmus alata D2656 2020 4.1 - Brachys
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Buprestoidea
Family Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)
Subfamily Agrilinae
Tribe Tracheini
Subtribe Brachyina
Genus Brachys
Explanation of Names
Brachys Dejean 1833
Numbers
11 spp. in our area(1), 140 spp. total(2)
Range
New World, primarily neotropical(2); widespread in NA but more diverse in the south(3); B. aerosus is the only transcontinental sp.(4)
Works Cited
1.Bellamy C.L. The Buprestidae of North America (north of Mexico)
2.Bellamy C.L. () The world of jewel beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
3.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
4.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 9 March, 2005 - 9:36am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 14 February, 2015 - 4:48pm

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