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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Agrilinae » Eupristocerus » Alder Gall Buprestid (Eupristocerus cogitans)

Species Eupristocerus cogitans - Alder Gall Buprestid

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Works Cited
Cane Borer - Eupristocerus cogitans Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Eupristocerus cogitans Eupristocerus cogitans Alder Buprestid - Eupristocerus cogitans Beetle ID - Eupristocerus cogitans Eupristocerus cogitans (Weber) - Eupristocerus cogitans Eupristocerus cogitans Eupristocerus cogitans
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
Genus Eupristocerus
Species cogitans (Alder Gall Buprestid)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Eupristocerus cognitans (Weber)
Orig. Comb: Buprestis cognitans Weber, 1801
Numbers
monotypic genus (1)
Size
8-9 mm (2)
Range
MS-FL-NS-ON (3), + TX (E.G. Riley, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2011), OK (4)
Habitat
Wetlands
Season
May-Aug (BG data)
Food
Larvae in living Alders - Alnus and Birch - Betula (Betulaceae) (3)
Works Cited
1.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea
2.Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs
Solomon, J.D. 1995. USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook. 735 pp.
3.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.
4.List of Coleoptera Collected in Latimer County, Oklahoma by Karl Stephan (2002)
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 8 April, 2005 - 9:32am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 April, 2014 - 5:22pm

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