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Tribe Chrysochroini

Chalcophora angulicollis Large Flat-Headed Pine Borer - Chalcophora virginiensis Beetle/Cockroach? - Chalcophora angulicollis Help with Bug ID - Pine Borer? - Texania campestris Chalcophora sp? - Chalcophora angulicollis Sculptured Pine Borer? - Chalcophora virginiensis large beetle - Chalcophora angulicollis large gold and black beetle - Chalcophora angulicollis
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 Chrysochroini
Explanation of Names
Chrysochroini Laporte 1835
Numbers
16 spp. in 4 genera in our area(1); ca. 630 spp. in 48 genera worldwide(2)
Identification
see (3)
Range
worldwide (barely represented in the Neotropics)(2); in our area, across the continent(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
3.A revision of the genera Nanularia and Ampheremus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)
Bellamy C.L. 1987. LA County Mus. Nat. Hist. Contrib. Sci. 387:1-20.