Genus Chalcophora

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

Sculptured Pine Borer - Chalcophora georgiana

click beetle or metallic wood borer?????? - Chalcophora virginiensis

Buprestidae what? - Chalcophora virginiensis

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 Chrysochroini

Genus Chalcophora

Explanation of Names

Greek chalc- 'copper' + phor- 'bearing'

Numbers

5 spp. in our area, 20 spp. worldwide(1)

Range

Americas & Eurasia(1)

C. virginiensis e. NA; C. fortis ne. NA (NB-NJ-MI-IA west to MB-MT); C. liberta e. NA (PQ-FL west to MB-TX); C. georgiana GA-MS; C. angulicollis w. NA (BC-CA east to SD-TX)(2)

Remarks

key to 3 se. US spp.

Works Cited

1.	The World of Jewel Beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea, by C.L. Bellamy

2.	The Buprestidae of North America (north of Mexico), by C.L. Bellamy

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 12 December, 2010 - 1:46pm

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