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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Chrysochroinae » Chrysochroini » Chalcophora » Chalcophora fortis

Species Chalcophora fortis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Metallic Wood Borer or Sculptured Pine Borer - Chalcophora fortis beetle - Chalcophora fortis Large metallic wood boring beetle? - Chalcophora fortis Chalcophora - Chalcophora fortis Buprestid Chalcophora liberta or virginiensis beetle ?? - Chalcophora fortis Buprestis lineata? - Chalcophora fortis Chalcophora Pine-Borer ? - Chalcophora fortis Chalcophora fortis - female
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
Genus Chalcophora
Species fortis (Chalcophora fortis)
Explanation of Names
Chalcophora fortis LeConte 1860
Size
26–33 mm; our largest Chalcophora(1)
Identification
easily distinguished from by the single weak, longitudinal ridge present on the posterior face of the protibia; compared to other species in the genus, displays very little variation(1)
Range
e. NA (NB-MB to NJ-KS)(1)
Food
Larval host: Pinus strobus(2)
Works Cited
1.Reevaluation of Chalcophora angulicollis (LeConte) and Chalcophora virginiensis (Drury) with a review and key...
Maier C.A., Ivie M.A. 2013. The Coleopterists Bulletin 67: 457-469.
2.A catalog and bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America north of Mexico.
Nelson et al. 2008. The Coleopterists Society, Special Publication No. 4. 274 pp.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 22 March, 2006 - 3:28pm
Additional contributions by Joshua P. Basham, v belov
Last updated 10 January, 2014 - 3:56pm

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