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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Metallic Wood Boring Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Chrysochroinae » Chalcophora » Southern Sculptured Pine Borer (Chalcophora georgiana)

Species Chalcophora georgiana - Southern Sculptured Pine Borer

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Chalcophora georgiana Chalcophora georgiana Chalcophora - Chalcophora georgiana Sculptured Pine Borer - Chalcophora georgiana Sculptured Pine Borer - Chalcophora georgiana BG2715 E6628 - Chalcophora georgiana BG2715 E6628 - Chalcophora georgiana BG2715 E6628 - Chalcophora georgiana
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
Genus Chalcophora
Species georgiana (Southern Sculptured Pine Borer)
Explanation of Names
Author of species: (LeConte), 1857 (1)
Identification
Very similar to C. virginiensis - see reference below.
Range
South Carolina to Florida, Mississippi
USA: AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, PA, VA (1)
Food
Larvae: Pinus caribaea, P. echinata, P. palustris, P. taeda (1)
Remarks
Type locality: No. Amer.(1)
Internet References
Key to Chalcophora
Works Cited
1.Catalog and Bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America North of Mexico
By Gayle H. Nelson, George C. Walters, Jr., R. Dennis Haines, Charles L. Bellamy. 2008.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 17 March, 2005 - 12:34pm
Additional contributions by Joshua P. Basham
Last updated 18 October, 2009 - 12:29am

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