Species Acmaeodera amplicollis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Acmaeodera sp.? - Acmaeodera amplicollis

A Little More Color to the Collection - Acmaeodera amplicollis

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 Polycestinae

Genus Acmaeodera

Species amplicollis (Acmaeodera amplicollis)

Explanation of Names

Author of species: LeConte 1866 (1)

Range

USA: AZ, NM; also recorded from Mexico (1)

Food

Adults: Baileya, Gaillardia, Gutierrezia, Gymnosperma, Helianthus, Heliopsis, Heterotheca, Machaeranthera, Senecio, Verbesina (1)

Remarks

Type locality: Fort Whipple, AZ (1)

Works Cited

1.	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 Joshua P. Basham on 8 September, 2006 - 8:57pm
Last updated 25 September, 2009 - 1:56pm

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