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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 » Brachyina » Taphrocerus

Genus Taphrocerus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Scirpus D1539 Taphrocerus 2019 4 - Taphrocerus gracilis Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Scirpus cyperinus D1836 Taphrocerus 2019 2 - Taphrocerus Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Cyperus retrorsus-like D1837 2019 2 - Taphrocerus St. Andrews leaf miner on Rhynchospora perplexa SA1835 2020 1.1 - Taphrocerus nicolayi St. Andrews leaf miner on Cyperus plukenetii SA1848 2020 16 - Taphrocerus Taphrocerus chevrolati Weymouth Woods leaf miner Taphrocerus on Dulichium arundinaceum D4582 2023 4 - Taphrocerus nicolayi mwbb - Taphrocerus
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 Taphrocerus
Explanation of Names
Taphrocerus Solier 1833
Numbers
13 spp. in our area(1), >170 total(2)
Range
New World, north to QC‒AB(2)(1)
Food
Larvae mine in Scirpus spp. and other Cyperaceae(3)
Works Cited
1.Bellamy C.L. The Buprestidae of North America (north of Mexico)
2.Bellamy C.L. () The world of jewel beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
3.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.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 6 April, 2005 - 1:02pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 18 January, 2024 - 9:19pm

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