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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Chrysobothris subcylindrica

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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 Buprestinae
Tribe Chrysobothrini
Genus Chrysobothris
Species subcylindrica (Chrysobothris subcylindrica)
Explanation of Names
Chrysobothris subcylindrica Ménétries in Motschulsky 1859
Range
w. US (OR-CA to ID-UT-NM)(1)
Food
Larval hosts: Artemisia tridentata, Chrysothamnus nauseosus, Gutierrezia sarothrae, Heterotheca villosa; Adults also on [/i]Prosopis glandulosa, Psorothamnus emoryi, Purshia tridentata[/i] var. glandulosa, Senna armata(1)
Remarks
Type locality: (CA-Sacramento) "Nova-Helvetia"(1)
Works Cited
1.A catalog and bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America north of Mexico.
Nelson et al. 2008. The Coleopterists Society, Special Publication No. 4. 274 pp.