Genus Dicerca

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Large Buprest Beetle, 2:46pm - Dicerca tenebrica

Perhaps a metallic woodboring beetle? - Dicerca

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Buprestoidea (Metallic Wood Boring Beetles)

Family Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)

Subfamily Chrysochroinae

Tribe Dicercini

Genus Dicerca

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

=Neoargante Nelson 2006, Argante Gistel 1834; no subgenera are recognized anymore (Bellamy 2011)

Explanation of Names

Dicerca Eschscholtz 1829

Numbers

24 spp. in our area(1), 43 total(2)

Size

9-26 mm (nearctic spp.)(3)

Range

holarctic, Neotropical, & Oriental(2); across NA(1)

Food

recently dead wood or dead parts of living trees (deciduous & coniferous), but D. pugionata attack apparently healthy trees; a few spp. seem monophagous, but most are oligophages(3)

Life Cycle

many spp. hibernate as adults under loose bark; life cycle takes several years (in European spp.)(3)

Print References

Bellamy C.L. (2011) New synonymy and combination in Buprestidae (Coleoptera). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 86(3): 95-99 (Full text)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)

2.	The World of Jewel Beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea, by C.L. Bellamy

3.	A revision of the genus Dicerca in North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) By G.H. Nelson

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 9 March, 2005 - 11:36am
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, v belov
Last updated 17 May, 2012 - 12:31am

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