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Superfamily Buprestoidea - Metallic Wood Boring Beetles

click beetle - Dicerca Buprestis adjecta (Mann.) - Buprestis adjecta big golden-elytra bup - Gyascutus caelatus Western Sculptured Pine Beetle - Chalcophora angulicollis Large Buprestidae - Chrysobothris Buprestis langii Buprestid - Acmaeodera haemorrhoa Buprestid - Acmaeodera
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)
Numbers
Two NA families;
Schizopodidae - False Jewel Beetles [chapter 40 (1)] (was until quite recently considered a subfamily of the Buprestidae), members of this family are found in the southwestern US.
Buprestidae - Metallic Wood Boring Beetles [chapter 41 (1)]
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)