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Genus Poecilonota

Pack Buprestidae 7.11.09 01a - Poecilonota Buprestidae - Poecilonota cyanipes Eastern Poplar Buprestid - Poecilonota cyanipes - - Poecilonota salixi   - Poecilonota cyanipes Some type of Wood worm - Thinking Metallic Wood Borer Beetle.  - Poecilonota beetle (pulled out of rain water) - Poecilonota Potential Poecilonota montana - Poecilonota montana
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
Genus Poecilonota
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Descarpentriesina Lerault 1983
Explanation of Names
Poecilonota Eschscholtz 1829
Numbers
9 spp. in our area, 11 spp. total(1)
Range
Holarctic(1)
Remarks
our only representative of the tribe Poecilonotini Jakobson 1913, that contains 6 genera (>110 spp.) worldwide (most diverse in E. Asia)(1)