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Species Buprestis fremontiae

Buprestis fremontiae - female Buprestis fremontiae  - Buprestis fremontiae Flannelbush Buprestid - Buprestis fremontiae - female
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 Buprestinae
Tribe Buprestini
Genus Buprestis
No Taxon (subgenus Knulliobuprestis)
Species fremontiae (Buprestis fremontiae)
Explanation of Names
Buprestis fremontiae Burke 1924
Identification
When alive the color is ivory with orange elytral apices and purple metallic highlights on the dark areas.
Range
CA (1)
Habitat
larvae host on California flannelbush (Fremontodendron californicum, Sterculiaceae) (1)
Works Cited
1.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.