Superfamily Buprestoidea - Metallic Wood Boring Beetles

Classification · Numbers · Works Cited

Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Chrysobothris

Buprestid - Acmaeodera tubulus - male - female

Oregon Coast Buprestid(?) - Buprestis lyrata

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.)

Contributed by Cotinis on 9 January, 2006 - 9:11am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian
Last updated 14 October, 2007 - 8:51am

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