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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) » Chrysochroinae » Chrysochroini » Chalcophora » Chalcophora fortis

Species Chalcophora fortis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Works Cited
Chalcophora fortis Wood-boring Beetle? - Chalcophora fortis Chalcophora fortis Metallic Wood Borer or Sculptured Pine Borer - Chalcophora fortis Dicerca? - Chalcophora fortis Dicerca? - Chalcophora fortis Dicerca? - Chalcophora fortis
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
Tribe Chrysochroini
Genus Chalcophora
Species fortis (Chalcophora fortis)
Explanation of Names
Author of species: LeConte, 1860 (1)
Range
e. NA (ME-QC-MB to NJ-KS)(1)
Food
Larval host: Pinus strobus(1)
Works Cited
1.A catalog and bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America north of Mexico
By Gayle H. Nelson, George C. Walters, Jr., R. Dennis Haines, Charles L. Bellamy. 2008.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 22 March, 2006 - 3:28pm
Additional contributions by Joshua P. Basham, v belov
Last updated 21 April, 2012 - 3:07pm

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