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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Metallic Wood Boring Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Thrincopygini » Chrysophana » Chrysophana placida

Species Chrysophana placida

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Works Cited
Chrysophana placida Chrysophana placida Another Green Buprestid... - Chrysophana placida buprestid - Chrysophana placida very small, but not well camoed! - Chrysophana placida Chrysophana placida Chrysophana placida Green Buprestid - Chrysophana placida
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Buprestoidea (Metallic Wood Boring Beetles)
Family Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)
Subfamily Polycestinae
Tribe Thrincopygini
Genus Chrysophana
Species placida (Chrysophana placida)
Explanation of Names
Chrysophana placida (LeConte 1854)
Range
w. NA (BC-CA east SD-NM)(1)
Food
Larval hosts: Abies concolor, A. lasiocarpa, A. magnifica, Pinus contorta, P. flexilis, P. jeffreyi, P. lambertiana, P. monophylla, P. monticola, P. ponderosa, P. sabiniana, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Tsuga mertensiana(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.
Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 13 December, 2007 - 5:28pm
Additional contributions by Joshua P. Basham, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 June, 2017 - 12:03pm

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