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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Agrilinae » Agrilini » Agrilus » Agrilus subtropicus

Species Agrilus subtropicus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
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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 Agrilinae
Tribe Agrilini
Genus Agrilus
Species subtropicus (Agrilus subtropicus)
Explanation of Names
Agrilus subtropicus Schaeffer 1905
Size
7.5-9 mm (Schaeffer 1905)
Identification
a somewhat atypical Agrilus species in that it is one of the few species found in America north of Mexico that has the tips of the elytra prolonged. (1)
Range
southmost TX (Cameron & Hidalgo cos.) / Mexico (Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas) and Honduras - Map (1)(2)
Season
Number of compiled Texas collecting events by month:
April (1), May (7), June(1), July (2). (1)
Food
Adults on:
Spiny Hackberry - Celtis ehrenbergiana Syn: C. pallida (Schaeffer 1905)
Texas Persimmon - Diospyros texana (3)
Knull (1937) took adults of this species in the Brownsville area on widely separated trees of Texas persimmon and he expressed the thought that this was probably the host for the species.
As of yet, the larval host of this species has not been determined. (1)
Remarks
Texas Parks and Wildlife considers this sp. a SGCN (4)
Type Locality: Esperanza Ranch, Brownsville, Cameron Co., TX (Schaeffer 1905)
Print References
Fisher, W.S. 1928. A revision of the North American species of buprestid beetles belonging to the genus Agrilus. United States National Museum Bulletin, 145: 1-347. (5)
Knull, J.N. 1937. Notes on Coleoptera with descriptions of new species (Buprestidae and Cerambycidae). Entomological News 48: 15-17, 36-42.
Riley, E.G. & J.E. King. 2009. Element record datasheets submitted to Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Wildlife Division, Austin. (1)
Schaeffer, C. 1905. Additions to the Coleoptera of the United States with notes on some known species. Science Bulletin of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1(6): 123-140. (Full Text)
Westcott, R.L., T.A. Atkinson, H.A. Hespenheide & G.H. Nelson. 1990. New country and state records, and other notes for Mexican Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Insecta Mundi 3(3): 217-232. (6)
Westcott, R.L. & H.A. Hespenheide. 2006. The description of a new species of Agrilus Curtis, with distributional records, and taxonomic and biological notes for Agrilinae and Trachyinae (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of Mexico and Central America. Zootaxa 1367: 1-35. (7)
Works Cited
1.Element record datasheets, submitted to Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Wildlife Division, Austin.
Riley E.G., King J.E. 2009.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
3.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.
4.Texas "Species of Greatest Conservation Need" (SGCN) - TPWD
5.A revision of the North American species of buprestid beetles belonging to the genus Agrilus.
Fisher W.S. 1928. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 145: 1-347.
6.New country and state records, and other notes for Mexican Buprestidae (Coleoptera).
Westcott, R.L., T.A. Atkinson, H.A. Hespenheide & G.H. Nelson. 1990. Insecta Mundi 3(3): 217-232. .
7.A new sp. of Agrilus, w/ dist. records, taxonomic & biological notes for Agrilinae & Trachyinae (Buprestidae) of Mex. & C. Amer.
Westcott, R.L. & H.A. Hespenheide. 2006.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 14 January, 2010 - 8:41am
Last updated 27 March, 2019 - 9:31am

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