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Genus Brachys

Representative Images

Metallic Wood Boring Beetle - Brachys tessellatus Brachys Buprestid - Brachys aerosus Hairy Texture - Brachys floricola Brachys barberi Fisher - Brachys barberi Brachys apachei - Brachys aerosus Brachys - Brachys aerosus - female Brachys ovatus St. Andrews leaf miner on Quercus phellos SA1252 2017 1 - Brachys

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 Tracheini
Subtribe Brachyina
Genus Brachys

Explanation of Names

Brachys Dejean 1833

Numbers

14 spp. in our area(1)(2)(3)(4)(5), 140 total(6)

Range

New World, primarily neotropical(6); widespread in NA but more diverse in the south(7); B. aerosus is the only transcontinental sp.(8)

Works Cited

1.Bellamy C.L. The Buprestidae of North America (north of Mexico)
2.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.
3.Striking new species of Brachys Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico
Hespenheide H.A. 2015. The Coleopterists Bulletin 69: 221-224.
4.A new species of Brachys Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the eastern United States using an unusual host.
Hespenheide, H.A. and C.S. Eiseman. 2016. The Coleopterists Bulletin 70(2): 335-340.
5.A New Species of Brachys Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Texas and Oklahoma
Hespenheide, H.A. 2022. The Coleopterists Bulletin 76(3): 398-400.
6.Bellamy C.L. () The world of jewel beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
7.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
8.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 9 March, 2005 - 9:36am
Additional contributions by Joshua P. Basham, v belov
Last updated 9 June, 2025 - 10:38pm

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