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Species Agrilus pilosovittatus

Just another UnIDable Agrilus? - Agrilus pilosovittatus

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 Agrilinae

Tribe Agrilini

Genus Agrilus

Species pilosovittatus (Agrilus pilosovittatus)

Explanation of Names

Agrilus pilosovittatus Saunders 1873

Size

4.0-4.7 mm (Hespenheide 1969)

Range

native to E. Asia (China, Japan), adventive in NA (NY-NC)(1)

Food

host: Wisteria (Fabaceae)(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: NJ 1965 (Hespenheide 1969)

Print References

Hespenheide H.A. (1969) An immigrant Agrilus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Entomological News 79: 77-80 (Full text)

Works Cited

1.	Agrilus sulcicollis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), a new alien species in North America Jendek E., Grebennikov V.V. 2009. Can. Entomol. 141: 236–245.

Contributed by v belov on 17 May, 2015 - 11:22pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 29 July, 2015 - 4:26pm

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