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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Chrysochroinae » Dicercini » Dicercina » Dicerca

Genus Dicerca

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited
Wood Boring Beetle on Lodgepole Pine - Dicerca tenebrosa Dicerca asperata (Laporte & Gory) - Dicerca asperata insect9640 - Dicerca Dicerca tuberculata - male Dicerca lugubris ? - Dicerca Dicerca lugubris - male Buprestid - Dicerca Buprestid - Dicerca
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 Chrysochroinae
Tribe Dicercini
Subtribe Dicercina
Genus Dicerca
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Neoargante Nelson 2006, Argante Gistel 1834; no subgenera are recognized anymore (Bellamy 2011)
Explanation of Names
Dicerca Eschscholtz 1829
Numbers
24 spp. in our area(1), 43 total(2)
Size
9-26 mm (nearctic spp.)(3)
Range
holarctic, Neotropical, & Oriental(2); across NA(1)
Food
recently dead wood or dead parts of living trees (deciduous & coniferous), but D. pugionata attack apparently healthy trees; a few spp. seem monophagous, but most are oligophages(3)
Life Cycle
many spp. hibernate as adults under loose bark; life cycle takes several years (in European spp.)(3)
Print References
Bellamy C.L. (2011) New synonymy and combination in Buprestidae (Coleoptera). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 86(3): 95-99 (Full text)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea
3.A revision of the genus Dicerca in North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
Nelson G.H. 1975. Ent. Arb. Mus. G. Frey 26: 87-180.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 9 March, 2005 - 11:36am
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, v belov
Last updated 14 February, 2015 - 2:56pm

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