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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Metallic Wood Boring Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Buprestini » Buprestis » subgenus Buprestis (Buprestis subgenus Buprestis) » Buprestis confluenta

Species Buprestis confluenta

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Metallic Wood Boring Beetle - Buprestis confluenta Buprestis confluenta Say, 1823 - Buprestis confluenta - female Buprestis confluenta - female Buprestis confluenta Say - Buprestis confluenta Buprestis confluenta Say, 1823 - Buprestis confluenta - male Yellow Spotted Jewel Beetle - Buprestis confluenta
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 Buprestinae
Tribe Buprestini
Genus Buprestis
No Taxon (subgenus Buprestis)
Species confluenta (Buprestis confluenta)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Author: Say 1823
Range
CA-TX-MI-WA / adj. Can. (1)
Season
Primarily July (per pix posted here)
Food
Larvae in Populus spp. (1)
Remarks
Type Locality: Fort Osage, MO (1)
Works Cited
1.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 Lynette Schimming on 12 August, 2005 - 3:05pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 30 May, 2011 - 8:28am

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