Species Dicerca tenebrica - Flatheaded Poplar Borer

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Works Cited

Metallic Wood-Boring Beetle - Dicerca tenebrica

Unknown Buprestid at Exmoor - 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

Tribe Dicercini

Genus Dicerca

Species tenebrica (Flatheaded Poplar Borer)

Other Common Names

Poplar Dicerca(1)

Explanation of Names

Dicerca tenebrica (Kirby 1837)

Size

14.5-26.0 mm(1)

Range

throughout Canada and most of the US (south to GA-CA)(2)(1)

Season

adults present Mar-Nov(1)

Food

Larvae in bigtooth aspen (Populus grandidentata), adults on other Populus spp.(2)

Works Cited

1.	Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs By Solomon, J.D. 1995.

2.	A 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 Tony-2 on 18 June, 2005 - 6:37am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 6 April, 2012 - 5:14am

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