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Species Chrysobothris speculifer

Chrysobothris speculifer Horn - Chrysobothris speculifer

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 Buprestinae

Tribe Chrysobothrini

Genus Chrysobothris

Species speculifer (Chrysobothris speculifer)

Explanation of Names

Chrysobothris speculifer Horn 1886

Range

sw US (CA-TX-CO-UT) (1)

Life Cycle

larvae host in Juniperus californica, J. monosperma (Cupressaceae) (1)

Remarks

Type Locality: CO

Print References

Horn, G.H. 1886. A monograph of the species of Chrysobothris inhabiting the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 13: 65-124, plates ii-vii.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

1.	A catalog and bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America north of Mexico. Nelson et al. 2008. The Coleopterists Society, Special Publication No. 4. 274 pp.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 6 March, 2016 - 4:22pm

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