Genus Texania

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification

Texania campestris Say - Texania campestris

Texania fulleri (Horn) - Texania fulleri

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 Chrysochroinae

Genus Texania

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chalcophorella (genus reserved for other regions)- common in older literature.

Identification

Like Chalcophora, but pronotum with single medial groove and elytra with lateral apices serrate.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 12 February, 2006 - 9:04pm
Last updated 22 February, 2006 - 12:37pm

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