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Subfamily Chrysochroinae

dark metallic wood borer - Dicerca pugionata Divaricata on porch floorboards - Dicerca divaricata 1982 Sculptured Pine Borer - Chalcophora virginiensis Chalcophora sp? - Chalcophora angulicollis Buprestid with broken antenna - Dicerca lurida Hippomelas parkeri Nelson - Hippomelas parkeri - male Beetle  - Gyascutus Iridescent blue and gold beetle - Lampetis drummondi
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 Chrysochroinae
Explanation of Names
Chrysochroinae Laporte 1835
Numbers
>70 spp. in 12 genera of 4 tribes in our area(1); >2700 spp. in 110 genera of 8 tribes worldwide(2)
Range
worldwide(2) and throughout NA (more diverse in sw. US)(1)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea