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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Metallic Wood Boring Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Agrilinae » Agrilus

Genus Agrilus

Classification · Numbers · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
white edged Buprestid - Agrilus olivaceoniger Buprestid - Agrilus vittaticollis? - Agrilus vittaticollis Bup with tail spines? - Agrilus Buprestidae - Agrilus? - Agrilus cuprescens Buprestid ID? - Agrilus Agrilus sp. - Agrilus politus Agrilus sp.? - Agrilus obsoletoguttatus Two-lined Chestnut Borer? - Agrilus bilineatus
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 Agrilinae
Genus Agrilus
Numbers
171 species documented north of Mexico (1)
Range
Generally distributed (1)
Food
Most spp. are wood borers (1)
Print References
Bellamy, C.L. 1996. Comments on the genus Agrilus Curtis, 1825: Where do we go and do we go together? (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae). Elytron, 9 (1995): 77–86.
Fisher, W.S. 1928. A revision of the North American species of buprestid beetles belonging to the genus Agrilus. United States National Museum Bulletin, 145: 1-347.
Internet References
Photos - Invasive Species
Emerald Ash Borer - Invasive Species
Emerald Ash Borer - (EAB), Agrilus planipennis
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 28 June, 2004 - 7:28am
Additional contributions by Joshua Stuart Rose, Mike Quinn
Last updated 30 March, 2009 - 3:35pm

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