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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Metallic Wood Boring Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Chrysochroinae » Dicercini » Hippomelanina

Subtribe Hippomelanina

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Print References · Works Cited
Gyascutus jeanae (Nelson, 1988) - Gyascutus jeanae - male Gyascutus planicosta planicosta - Gyascutus planicosta Gyascutus carolinensis Horn - Gyascutus carolinensis Gyascutus caelatus Desert Beetle ID - Gyascutus planicosta Gyascutus dianae Arizona Buprestid - Hippomelas planicauda Beetle - Gyascutus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Buprestoidea (Metallic Wood Boring Beetles)
Family Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)
Subfamily Chrysochroinae
Tribe Dicercini
Subtribe Hippomelanina
Explanation of Names
Hippomelanina Hołyński 1993
Numbers
4 genera total, all in our area(1)
Print References
Nelson, G. H. & C. L. Bellamy. (1996). A revision of the subtribe Hippomelanina: Hippomelas Laporte and Gory, Prasinalia Casey, Gyascutus (Stictocera) Casey, and Barrellus, gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Journal of Natural History 30:861-911. (PDF)
Works Cited
1.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea
Contributed by v belov on 22 February, 2015 - 6:49pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff
Last updated 7 August, 2016 - 1:16am

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