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Species Buprestis nutalli

Beetle - id? - Buprestis nutalli Nuttall's Buprestid - Buprestris nutalli - Buprestis nutalli Buprestis nutalli Buprestis nutalli Buprestis nutalli Kirby - Buprestis nutalli - 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 Buprestis)
Species nutalli (Buprestis nutalli)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
nuttalli (spelling)
Explanation of Names
Buprestis nutalli Kirby 1837
Range
w NA (AK-CA to SD-TX)(1)
Habitat
common in Sierra Nevada on Pinus
Food
Larvae in Pinus cembroides, P. ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii; adults also on Pinus strobus(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.