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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Agrilinae » Tracheini » Pachyschelus » Pachyschelus purpureus
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mine on Acalypha virginica - Pachyschelus purpureus
Copyright © 2015 Michael W. Palmer

mine on Acalypha virginica - Pachyschelus purpureus
Mehan, Payne County, Oklahoma, USA
July 4, 2015
Disturbed forest understory

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Contributed by Michael W. Palmer on 4 July, 2015 - 4:21pm
Last updated 4 February, 2020 - 5:27pm

Moved
Moved from Pachyschelus purpureus uvaldei.

Well, these really are of uncertain subspecific status, as noted earlier.
… Charley Eiseman, 4 February, 2020 - 5:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pachyschelus purpureus.

Norm Woodley has examined some of these adults, and he is calling them uvaldei (though that's mostly based on host plant). Did you end up sending some to Ted MacRae?

Once overwintering buprestids are done emerging this spring, I'm going to send some off for barcoding, including P. purpureus from both Acalypha and Geranium.
… Charley Eiseman, 28 January, 2017 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

Henry Hespenheide says,
"Interesting. Having revised the genus for the US, I am interested in seeing US specimens reared from Acalypha. Central American subspecies of purpureus use Acalypha as hosts (as do other species of Pachyschelus), but the US nominal population has only been recorded on Geranium."
… v belov, 13 July, 2015 - 5:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, I just sent him an em
Thanks, I just sent him an email!
… Michael W. Palmer, 13 July, 2015 - 5:45pm login or register to post comments

 
splendid.
… v belov, 13 July, 2015 - 5:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Update
In an email to me and Mike on 8/24/15, Henry wrote:

"I've dissected two males, mounted them, and had a look at them. They are smaller than specimens of Pachyschelus purpureus collected on Geranium and do not have the reddish-purple elytra of P. purpureus uvaldei. This species - in the broad sense - ranges throughout Central America on Acalypha in a variety of local forms and yours is a little different."

So subspecies placement is unclear at this point.
… Charley Eiseman, 30 September, 2015 - 8:12am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.
… v belov, 13 July, 2015 - 2:01pm login or register to post comments

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