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Genus Prasinalia

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 Chrysochroinae

Tribe Dicercini

Subtribe Hippomelanina

Genus Prasinalia

Explanation of Names

Prasinalia Casey 1909

Numbers

2 spp., both in our area(1)(2)

Range

AZ-CA(1)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea

Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 15 December, 2007 - 9:22pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 14 February, 2015 - 2:48pm

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