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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 » Buprestis

Genus Buprestis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Print References · Works Cited
Buprestis striata - female Green Beetle - Buprestis aurulenta Buprestis lyrata Unknown Buprestid - Buprestis decora Bright metallic beetle. What kind? - Buprestis viridisuturalis Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Buprestis laeviventris ? - Buprestis laeviventris Buprestis rufipes Olivier - Buprestis rufipes Buprestis confluenta Say - 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
Genus Buprestis
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cypriacis - has been variously treated, considered a full genus in American Beetles(1), but current thinking puts it back as a subgenus of Buprestis. Differs in that the elytra have the striae replaced with rows of punctures
Explanation of Names
buprest, =is (G). A beetle poisonous to cattle (2)
Numbers
18 species north of Mexico (1)
Range
generally distributed (1)
Food
Fagus - Beech
Populus - Cottonwood
Acer - Maple
Quercus - Oak
plus various Conifers (1)
Print References
Helfer, J.R. 1941. A revision of the genus Buprestis of North. America north of Mexico. Entomologica Americana (N.S.), 21(3): 123–185.
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)
2.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
By Donald J. Borror
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 7 July, 2009 - 3:35pm

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