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Genus Chrysobothris

Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Chrysobothris Chrysobothris neotexana Dozier - Chrysobothris neotexana - female Chrysobothris pusilla Gory & Laporte - Chrysobothris pusilla - male gray buprestid - Chrysobothris dentipes Chrysobothris monticola Chrysobothris rutondicollis - Chrysobothris rotundicollis Chrysobothris rutondicollis - Chrysobothris rotundicollis Chrysobothris piuta Wickham, 1903 - Chrysobothris piuta
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 Buprestinae
Genus Chrysobothris
Explanation of Names
chrys, -o, =us (G). Gold (1)
bothr, -i, -o, =us (G). A pit, trench (1)
Numbers
134 species north of Mexico (2)
Range
generally distributed (2)
Print References
Wellso, S.G. & G.V. Manley. 2007. A revision of the Chrysobothris femorata (Olivier, 1790) species group from North America, north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Zootaxa 1652: 1–26.

Fisher, W.S. 1942. A revision of the North American species of buprestid beetles belonging to the tribe Chrysobothrini. USDA Miscellaneous Publication 470: 1-275.
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
By Donald J. Borror
2.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)