Genus Taphrocerus

Classification · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited

Beetle [Taphrpcerus?] ID Request - Taphrocerus

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 Agrilinae

Tribe Tracheini

Genus Taphrocerus

Numbers

13 spp. in our area(1), >170 spp. total(2)

Range

New World, incl. NA north to QC-AB(2)(1)

Food

Larvae mine in Scirpus spp. and other Cyperaceae(3)

Works Cited

1.	The Buprestidae of North America (north of Mexico), by C.L. Bellamy

2.	The World of Jewel Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae), by C.L. Bellamy

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

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 6 April, 2005 - 1:02pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 28 July, 2011 - 6:23pm

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