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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) » Polycestinae » Acmaeodera » Yellow-bordered Flower Buprestid (Acmaeodera flavomarginata)

Species Acmaeodera flavomarginata - Yellow-bordered Flower Buprestid

Classification · Numbers · Range · Season · Internet References
red-tailed flower buprestid - Acmaeodera flavomarginata Yellow-bordered Flower Buprestid - Acmaeodera flavomarginata Yellow-bordered Flower Buprestid - Acmaeodera flavomarginata Black, red, & yellow bug - Acmaeodera flavomarginata Beetles on Sunflower - Acmaeodera flavomarginata Buprestid - Acmaeodera flavomarginata click beetles on Verbesinia enceloides - Acmaeodera flavomarginata - male - female Acmaeodera flavomarginata (Gray) - Acmaeodera flavomarginata
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 Polycestinae
Genus Acmaeodera
Species flavomarginata (Yellow-bordered Flower Buprestid)
Numbers
There are 144 species of Acmaeodera, mostly in the southwestern United States (Arnett et al. 2002).
Range
Central and west Texas, south to Brazil
Season
Sept to Nov
Internet References
Texas Entomology - Mike Quinn
Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 18 November, 2005 - 4:30pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 28 November, 2007 - 5:08pm

ID credit
Species identified by Mark O'Brien and Dan Heffern.

Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D.
World Birding Center
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park
joshua.rose_NO_SPAM@tpwd.state.tx.us
956-584-9156 x 236
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 18 November, 2005 - 5:16pm

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