Species Dicerca tenebrica - Poplar Borer

Classification

Dicerca tenebrica - Flathead Poplar Borer - Dicerca tenebrica

Metallic Wood-Boring Beetle - Dicerca tenebrica

Brassy Metallic Wood Borer Beetle - Dicerca tenebrica

Buprestid- Dicerca sp. - Dicerca tenebrica

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 Dicerca

Species tenebrica (Poplar Borer)

Contributed by Tony-2 on 18 June, 2005 - 6:37am

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