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Tribe Dicercini

Big mottled bup - Lampetis drummondi Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Dicerca obscura Dicerca horni - Dicerca hornii Lampetis cupreopunctata (Schaeffer) - Lampetis cupreopunctata Dicerca - Dicerca lurida Dicerca sp - Dicerca Wood-boring Beetle - Dicerca lurida blue Buprestid - Lampetis drummondi
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 Chrysochroinae
Tribe Dicercini
Explanation of Names
Dicercini Gistel 1848
Numbers
46 spp. in 6 genera in our area(1); ca. 770 spp. in 32 genera worldwide (about ⅔ of spp. in Polybothris & Lampetis)(2)
Range
worldwide except Australasia(2); across NA(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea
Contributed by v belov on 17 May, 2010 - 4:09am
Last updated 14 February, 2015 - 2:46pm

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