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Species Pachyschelus purpureus

Little beetle - Pachyschelus purpureus Beetle - Pachyschelus purpureus Lots of Geranium in the Woods - Pachyschelus purpureus - male - female One final image - Pachyschelus purpureus Buprestidae, Wild geranium leaf miner, upper side of leaf - Pachyschelus purpureus Buprestidae, cocoon - Pachyschelus purpureus Pachyschelus purpureus Pachyschelus purpureus
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
Genus Pachyschelus
Species purpureus (Pachyschelus purpureus)
Explanation of Names
Pachyschelus purpureus (Say 1839)
Numbers
2 sspp. in our area (one endemic to TX)(1)
Size
2-3 mm
Identification
Elytra bright blue in the nominate ssp., reddish-purple in P. p. uvaldei, with patches of condensed setae
Range
NY-ON-MN to AL-AZ(2)
Food
hosts: Geranium (P. p. purpureus); Acalypha (P. p. uvaldei)(1)
Works Cited
1.A reconsideration of Pachyschelus schwarzi Kerremans and a review of American Pachyschelus North of Mexico (Col.: Buprestidae)
Hespenheide H.A. 2003. Col. Bull. 57: 459-468.
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.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 17 March, 2005 - 8:40am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 13 July, 2015 - 5:30pm

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