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Species Acmaeodera amplicollis

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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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